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Ignore files for zsh's completion for SVN

I managed to configure zsh such that it does not suggest LaTeX temporary files when I use autocompletion for emacs by adding this line to my ~/.zshrc: zstyle ':completion:*:*:emacs:*:*files' ...
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Directory stack order in zsh

I am working on Zsh 5.0.2 (latest stable version), and I noticed that: dirs -v and cd -<TAB> show a different list of directories (or at least directories in different order). Moreover, ...
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remove a host from the completion list for ssh in zsh

I once had some hosts named 'myhost', 'myhost1', etc. And now all those except 'myhost3' become invalid. I removed those from /etc/hosts and ~/.ssh/known_hosts, but zsh still completes them for me. Is ...
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zsh completion: getting file names from a specific directory

OK, a little background: I use a Mac, and I do as much as possible in the CLI. In particular, I frequently pop in a USB stick, cp or mv a file over, and then immediately wish to eject (unmount and ...
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How to make ZSH tab completion work with two tabs

I saw a question like this on here, but the answer didn't work for me. I'm trying to set up tab completion and I want it that if I have two files fileA and fileB and I type fil<tab> it first ...
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zsh autocompletion for symlinks

Say I have a folder parent with a subfolder, subfolder and a symbolic link symbolic_link. I noticed that if my current working directory subfolder and I try to do cd ../sym[TAB], it will not ...
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Can any shell do argument-level interactive search?

Sometimes I need to reuse certain long arguments like paths. If I use history search (CTRL+R), I may find some command that contains the path, but I still need to delete anything else in the old ...
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zsh refusing to accept new autocomplete script

I have a software project that I'm attempting to write zsh completions for. After installing a package that provided a number of pre-made completions, I found they were put here: ...
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Expand less-than sign when using multios and brace expand

With zsh multios set (setopt multios) it's possible to do things like: < in1 < in2 > out and: < in > out1 > out2 which is very convenient. I want to combine this feature with ...
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Weird autocomplete behaviour in ZSH / oh-my-zsh for directories that don't exist

UPDATE 3 I've worked out that these annoying autocomplete options are actually usernames. I.e. they exist in /etc/passwd I have users such as _kadmin_admin and _kadmin_changepw and many others ...
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How to append / extend zshell completions?

I am using zsh with oh-my-zsh. Unfortunately, oh-my-zsh does not use file ~/.ssh/config for hostname auto-completion (see Issue #1009, for instance). This could easily archived by the following code: ...
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Bash Auto-Completion feature for SSHing into Different Hosts

I have big list of servers which I normally ssh to all the time. Is there any way using bash or zsh so that I can keep the list of hostname and bash auto-completion goes through the file and gives me ...
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Stop tab completion suggesting 'messagebus'

I've got a directory called build, which I cd into quite a bit. If there isn't any directory bu* in the current directory, zsh tab completion: cd buTAB suggests messagebus/, which isn't in .. If I ...
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Inhibit Variable Expansion in Paths

How do I prevent Zshell (and Bash I assume) from expanding environment variables in paths be completed as shown in the following example: $PREFIX/alt/li should expand to $PREFIX/alt/lib and not ...
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Change completion behaviour with brace expansion in zsh

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 ...
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Executing zsh rehash after build

I have a build script that can change what binaries are in my $PATH (it doesn't edit $PATH itself, but it adds/deletes files to folders that are already in $PATH). zsh's autocompletion doesn't update ...
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oh-my-zsh completion on home directory names

I recently switched to zsh from bash, and I'm using oh-my-zsh. There's a completion behaviour I don't want: in any directory, the list of autocompletion candidates seems to include the names of all ...
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Completing avfs fake directories in zsh

How can I tweak zsh's completion system to complete “fake” files in some circumstances? More precisely, the AVFS filesystem exposes archives as directories by creating a “fake directory” next to ...
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Cancel zsh tab completion

Is there a way to cancel a completion once it has been started? I sometimes foolishly press tab to autocomplete make targets (only from sheer indolence) and then end up having to wait for a longer ...
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How to disable autocompletion for sudo …?

I am new to zsh and I like it a lot, especially with oh-my-zsh plugin. I installed oh-my-zsh with its default values and can't figure out how to turn off autocompletion for specific commands, that I ...
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How ignore PATH with `source` completion

I can't find any 'detailed enough' documentation about zstyle, and I'm surprised that no one faced this problem before: here is what I get with tab completion: source l<TAB> l2ping* ...
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Complete only at the beginning of the word

I've got an issue with ZSH autocompletion, and I can't find the right keyworks to get rid of it. For instance, with files like $ ls Accelion, titi toto tata I would like to write: $ ls ...
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Dynamically update completion list in zsh

I find zsh's result lists for Tab completion quite useful, however I'd like to tweak their behaviour a bit: They should appear when I Tab for the first time and afterwards dynamically update with ...
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How to specify timeout for tab completion in zsh?

Zsh's completion feature is great except for this one. When I try to complete in a folder with lots of files/network folder, it takes a couple of minutes and prints this error. example.com:~$ ls ...
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ZSH takes two tabs to complete filenames

I love Zsh's tab completions, but it's frustrating when there is only one possible option and I have to tab twice to tab complete the filename. For example, if this is a list of files in a directory: ...
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Files with no .sh extension not considered for autocompletion in zsh

I have noticed that unless I add an .sh extension to my shell scripts, Zsh does not suggest them for autocompletion for execution despite having them in my PATH. I have the same problem if I cd into ...
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Terminal does not source .zshrc with custom colors for ls and cd command

I customized the directory and file colors for ls and cd + TAB. Here is my configuration. My configuration My system environment. Ubuntu 10.10 zsh 4.3.10 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) oh-my-zsh // ...
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zsh - fully expand binary path on <tab>

In my current zsh behaviour, hitting tab after typing "sudo" just adds a space. $ sudo ... What I really want is for the tab to fully expand to the path of the binary it is about to execute when I ...
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zsh autocomplete directory

I'm new to zsh and one thing that I do quite often is execute shell scripts that are in a directory of mine called Scripts. I'm not always inside of the Scripts directory, however... I may be in ...
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Zsh autocomplete ls command with directories only

Suppose I have following files and directories: % ls bui00293 buiawer builds/ buiowpe/ I want to list the content of ...
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Pipe zsh auto completion list to file or less

zsh: do you wish to see all 923 possibilities (462 lines)? Yes please, but in a file or less.
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zsh: how to fix tab completion so it doesn't hide entries?

I'm using oh-my-zsh on Mac OS X with homebrew'ed zsh 4.3.12. I stumbled recently on a weird problem. In scripts/not-used I have several .R files: breakdowns.R eventloop.R ...
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is there a way to set coloring for cd tab complete?

I use ubuntu 11.04. Is there a way to set coloring for output after tab completion listing of a cd, ls, or etc. ? i.e. myshell@root$ cd ~/user/files/ I hit tab... myfile myfoo mybar <-- this ...
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ZSH tab completion: only complete files and not binaries

Is it possible to make a custom zsh completion file,so when hitting tab for filenames it avoids completing the binaries? For example,I have 2 files , myprogram.c and myprogram,the binary,is it ...
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_path_files and compadd ignore-files parameter

What is the format for the -F option of _path_files and compadd? I'm passing several directories to _path_files: _path_files -W "($base_directories)" -/ But some of those directory trees I don't ...
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ZSH: insert completion on first tab even if ambiguous?

Currently ZSH displays a menu when I first hit tab and the completion is ambiguous. So, if I have 'cd ' in the command prompt and I hit tab, it will show the different available completions. If I hit ...
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zsh equivalent of bash show-all-if-ambiguous?

In bash, if you hit tab when there are multiple possible completions you get a list of matches that keeps reprinting if you repeatedly press tab. In tcsh, setting autocomplete to enhanced also ...
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Hiding a zsh completion

I just switched to zsh (from tcsh) and have only run into one serious frustration: There are multiple completions for push — pushd and pushln. I’d really like to only have pushd available, since ...
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How do I get my shell functions to make use of existing autocompletion in zsh?

I have a couple of shell functions defined in my .zshrc which save on typing and allow integration with screen. For example: function s() { screen -t "$1" ssh "$@" } However, when I use these ...
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zsh alias expansion

Is it possible to configure zsh to expand global aliases during tab completion? For example, I have the common aliases: alias -g '...'='../..' alias -g '....'='../../..' but when I type for ...
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Add arguments from previous command to zsh completion

In zsh (as well as bash) you can use some history word expansions to denote arguments from previous commands. This example shows getting the 2nd parameter from the previous command in history with ...
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zsh autcomplete not updating path executables [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: rebuild auto-complete index (or whatever it's called) After I install something via aptitude, zsh won't be able to find it until I search for it with which. For ...
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ZSH to auto-complete directories in command-line arguments?

Transferred from regular StackOverflow... I'm a new ZSH convert on OSX (git status in the prompt was my main driver to make the leap). Everything seems to be working swimmingly but I'm missing ...
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ZSH autocomplete

How do I make zsh give me the autcomplete options but not fill in the prompt line with the first result? For example, this is the behavior I'm seeing: $ ifc{tab} $ ifcfg external command ifcfg ...
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rebuild auto-complete index (or whatever it's called)

After installing new software, an already opened terminal with zsh won't know about the new commands, and cannot generate auto-complete for those. Apparently opening a new terminal fix the problem, ...