[feat] [zsh] add word completion

[laur89]

In my pursuit of migrating off fasd, I'd love to see word completion akin to how it was done in fasd.

Extremely low priority, mind.

[andrewferrier]

Makes sense, and I'll try to implement this. Might not be straight away.

[andrewferrier]

OK, I'm taking a look at this. However, I can't get this to work in fasd (I've never used word completion in fasd personally). When I type d,xyz (with the fasd d alias loaded), it just uses regular zsh completion and shows me the next thing beginning with xyz! How is it supposed to work? Does it display all possible matches from the fasd database and allow you to tab between them?

Taking a step back, what's the bigger picture objective here? Presumably it's to allow tab completion from memy's database. I don't really like the way in fasd this is chained to the out-of-the-box aliases.

How about (at least for bash and zsh) something like this you're typing this command:

cp myfile.tar ,media<Tab>

And it autocompletes with all of the files/dirs in memy's database that contain 'media' (in frecency order)? This could also support ,fmedia and ,dmedia for files and dirs only.

Does that make sense? I think that would also do what fasd does, but more flexibly?

[laur89]

I only moved to zsh less than a year ago, so never got to use much like with bash.

This could also support ,fmedia and ,dmedia for files and dirs only.

I find this syntax agreeable. Would still prefer the possibility of ,d and ,f suffix as well.

[andrewferrier]

OK - when you tab-complete like this with fasd, does it always just return the first match - or do you get a menu if there's more than one match?

[laur89]

Not at my computer for a while, but think it'd make sense to do what seems reasonable for memy, not necessarily for fast here. Believe the usual tab-selection menu offers the most logical UX, only completing automatically if a single result matches. Unless there are counter-arguments to this.

[andrewferrier]

Makes sense. Implementing this is turning out to be a bit tricky, mainly because I'm learning a lot about zsh completion works, but I think doing this the right well will pay dividends. Might take a little bit though. Watch this space!