[Monotone-devel] Re: zsh completion annoyance: mtn add

[Bruce Stephens]

"Steven E. Harris" <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

> This seems like a case of the tools trying to be too smart. If the
> candidate paths offered to zsh are
>
>   src/foo/bar/baz.h
>   obj/obj1.0
>
> one would expect that just seeing the leading 's' or 'o' would be
> enough to complete the right choice. I'm surprised that zsh /appears/
> to splitting the candidates into path components and filtering them
> piece-by-piece -- or something like that.

Yes, I think you're right.  Probably this dates from a time when "ls
unknown" didn't exist (or perhaps didn't have restrictions support).
There shouldn't be any performance problem now, I'd have thought.