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Hello!

I'm having a bit of trouble to get complete in tcsh to do what I want:

complete cd 'p/1/d:^CVS/'

I want this to mean "complete cd with directorys but skip those named CVS".
It doesn't work though, could anyone shed som light on this?

Any help appreciated!

version tcsh 6.04.00 (Cornell) 93/07/03 (sun4) options 8b,nls,dl,al

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: Hello!

: I'm having a bit of trouble to get complete in tcsh to do what I want:

: complete cd 'p/1/d:^CVS/'

: I want this to mean "complete cd with directorys but skip those named CVS".
: It doesn't work though, could anyone shed som light on this?

Completion of directories (under tcsh) is problematic.
Directories are treated as a part of a path to a file,
for example `CVS/doc' is a legal completion (as long it is a directory),
sometimes this behavior is unwanted, but this is what you got...
I think you can do your staff by:

complete cd 'p/1/`get_dirs_except_CVS`
when get_dirs_except_CVS is:
  o  a script/binary that prints all the directories except CVS
  o  complete cd 'n/*/`ls -l | grep ^d | awk '\''$9 != "CVS" {print $9}'\''`/'
     it is pretty slow (1 sec) on my highly loaded machine (load average 4)

On my previous post:

: I'm having a bit of trouble to get complete in tcsh to do what I want:

: complete cd 'p/1/d:^CVS/'

: I want this to mean "complete cd with directorys but skip those named CVS".
: It doesn't work though, could anyone shed som light on this?

Completion of directories (under tcsh) is problematic.
Directories are treated as a part of a path to a file, this makes sense only
when the target is a regular file, not a directory!

my solution was:
complete cd 'p/1/`get_dirs_except_CVS`/'

Well this does not work very well. I didn't like this fact, so I made a patch
on the old tcsh (6.04.00).
After applying the patch your `complete' statement should work for you.
NOTE: No warranty on the patch, I am not one of he writers of tcsh, so
     I can be missing something in my patch, please test it with care!

the patch:
------------ cut here -----------------------------

*** ../tcsh-6.04/tw.parse.c     Thu Jul  8 08:52:58 1993
--- tw.parse.c  Tue Apr 26 22:58:45 1994
***************
*** 844,850 ****
            if (text_check && isadirectory(exp_dir, item))
                break;

!           if (gpat && !Gmatch(item, pat) && !isadirectory(exp_dir, item))
                break;

            /*
--- 844,851 ----
            if (text_check && isadirectory(exp_dir, item))
                break;

!           if (gpat && !Gmatch(item, pat) && (
!                   TW_DIRECTORY == looking || !isadirectory(exp_dir, item)))
                break;

            /*

This is fixed in tcsh-6.05 coming soon to an ftp site near you...

christos