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PATCH: meaning of before/since for date glob qualifiers completion



This is a variant of the github #80 from Vincent Bernat.

Descriptions of just "before" and "since" are perhaps ambiguous because
it can depend on your perspective as to whether the specified date is
before/since the file time-stamp or the other way around. For
completion, we tend to be focussed on the value entered but in actual
usage the age of the files is perhaps foremost in people's mind.

This inverts them as per the github PR but also adds a brief
parenthetical. I'd prefer to keep the descriptions as brief as possible
because _dates expects most of the terminal is available to it.

Oliver

diff --git a/Completion/Unix/Command/_find b/Completion/Unix/Command/_find
index 8ff60baf2..74111f92b 100644
--- a/Completion/Unix/Command/_find
+++ b/Completion/Unix/Command/_find
@@ -156,11 +156,11 @@ if [[ $state = times ]]; then
     if zstyle -t ":completion:${curcontext}:senses" verbose; then
       zstyle -s ":completion:${curcontext}:senses" list-separator sep || sep=--
       default=" [default exactly]"
-      disp=( "- $sep before" "+ $sep since" )
+      disp=( "+ $sep before (older files)" "- $sep since (newer files)" )
       smatch=( - + )
     else
       disp=( before exactly since )
-      smatch=( - '' + )
+      smatch=( + '' - )
     fi
     alts=( "senses:sense${default}:compadd -V times -S '' -d disp -a smatch" )
   fi
diff --git a/Completion/Zsh/Type/_globquals b/Completion/Zsh/Type/_globquals
index 915f97c1c..bc3165eba 100644
--- a/Completion/Zsh/Type/_globquals
+++ b/Completion/Zsh/Type/_globquals
@@ -127,16 +127,14 @@ while [[ -n $PREFIX ]]; do
 	alts+=( "time-specifiers:time specifier:compadd -E 0 -d tdisp -S '' -a tmatch" )
       fi
       if ! compset -P '[-+]' && [[ -z $PREFIX ]]; then
-	sdisp=( before exactly since )
-	smatch=( - '' + )
 	if zstyle -t ":completion:${curcontext}:senses" verbose; then
 	  zstyle -s ":completion:${curcontext}:senses" list-separator sep || sep=--
 	  default=" [default exactly]"
-	  sdisp=( "- $sep before" "+ $sep since" )
-	  smatch=( - + )
+          sdisp=( "+ $sep before (older files)" "- $sep since (newer files)" )
+	  smatch=( + - )
 	else
 	  sdisp=( before exactly since )
-	  smatch=( - '' + )
+	  smatch=( + '' - )
 	fi
         alts+=( "senses:sense${default}:compadd -E 0 -d sdisp -S '' -a smatch" )
       fi




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