Change completion behaviour with brace expansion in zsh

Question

I have got used to using tab-autocompleting inside braces without expanding in zsh. This was possible, while I used zsh with a basic grml-config. Since I migrated to oh-my-zsh, I can't reproduce this behaviour.

Example:

$ touch dir/{some_file,other_f<TAB>}

The behaviour I want:

$ touch dir/{some_file,other_file}

The behaviour I get:

$ touch dir/some_file dir/other_f

Instead of autocompleting, a tab expands the braces, defeating the purpose of the brace expansion, whenever I tab for any of the filenames.

I have searched for an answer in the manpages and the zsh-sites for anything relevant, but I couldn't find anything satisfying. Since I am still fresh to zsh, I am not sure, what to look for exactly, though.

I would appreciate any pointers on where to find any explanations relevant to this question. Thank you in advance for any helpful input!

Answer 1

As Thor pointed out in his comment, the autocompletion in braces only works, until you put the closing brace.

So:

• touch dir/{some_file,other_f<TAB>(without the closing brace!) autocompletes the filename, so you get touch dir/{some_file,other_file

• touch dir/{some_file,other_f<TAB>}(with the closing brace!) expands the braces first, so you get touch dir/some_file dir/other_f