Is it possible to simplify the directory completion?

[azone]

Currently, if I want to cd to any directory, I need to input z keyword<space><tab> to show the list, Is it possible to change to z keyword<tab> or z keyword to show the completions directly?

[chapmanjacobd]

yeah this happens on fish shell also. strange. I would also expect z keyword<tab>

[xfzv]

Agreed, z keyword<tab> would be more convenient.

[xfzv]

Now that I think about it, z keyword<space><tab> makes more sense.

Let's say you're in your $HOME directory. z .<tab> will trigger auto-suggestions for directories starting with a ., like cd .<tab>. If you have a directory named dotfiles, z dot<tab> will trigger auto-completion -> z dotfiles.

This allows to use z instead of cd with auto-completions/suggestions in the current directory.

I guess that's why z keyword<space><tab> is used to query the Zoxide database. It avoids overriding this behavior.

Thoughts?

[kontrafiktion]

I would still prefer to not mix both and to not add the <SPACE> before pressing <TAB> because most other completions I am aware of behave that way.

To me cd and z are different enough that I do not want to use z as a cd replacement.

[ivankovnatsky]

I think zlua had this from the beginning, it's a completly essential feature, at least in my workflow.

[hanoii]

I would also like this to be at least configurable

[adriangalilea]

Hello, I would also like to have z tabor z keywordtab rather than spacetab

Also, would like that zienter didn't require enter

In these dotfiles by @sobolevn you can find his solution to this issue, however, it does not work for me, but maybe it'll help someone here and aid the discussion.

external

# === z ===
# https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide

# `zoxide` has an option to use `fzf` to provide completions natively,
# but it works only for `z NAME<SPACE><TAB>`,
# it does not work for `z NAME<TAB>`.
# So, I have this usecase as a custom completion defined in `.completions`.
eval "$(zoxide init zsh --no-cmd)"

z () {
  # I need this function to setup custom code completion for `zoxide`.
  \__zoxide_z "$@"
}

completions

# complete `zoxide`
_z () {
  # I have a custom completion, because I like `z NAME<TAB>`
  # and not `z NAME<SPACE><TAB>`
  local args
  args="$(zoxide query -a -l)"
  _arguments "1:paths:($args)"
}

compdef _z z