zsh/rc: Update documentation for global aliases.

[config/dotfiles.git] / zsh / rc

diff --git a/zsh/rc b/zsh/rc
index 779d0dde656e7706bdc68c8d7ef6bda1164ac9ba..8cc5d4ddd90ba46d897ac0bee357b92daf204fc2 100644 (file)
--- a/zsh/rc
+++ b/zsh/rc
@@ -509,10 +509,20 @@ setopt completeinword
 zstyle ':completion:::::' completer \
     _expand _complete _prefix _ignored _approximate
 
-# Try uppercase if the currently typed string doesn't match. This allows
-# typing in lowercase most of the time and completion fixes the case. Don't
-# perform these fixes in _approximate to prevent it from changing the input
-# too much. Thanks to the book "From Bash to Z Shell" page 249.
+# Match specification to be tried when completing items. Each group ('...') is
+# tried after another if no matches were found, once matches are found no
+# other groups are tried. Thanks to Mikachu in #zsh on Freenode (2012-08-28
+# 18:48 CEST) for explanations.
+#
+# When matching also include the uppercase variant of typed characters
+# ('m:{a-z}={A-Z}'); using '' before this group would try the unmodified match
+# first, but I prefer to get all matches immediately (e.g. if Makefile and
+# makefile exist in the current directory echo m<tab> matches both, with '' it
+# would only match makefile because it found one match). This allows typing in
+# lowercase most of the time and completion fixes the case, which is faster.
+#
+# Don't perform these fixes in _approximate to prevent it from changing the
+# input too much. Thanks to the book "From Bash to Z Shell" page 249.
 zstyle ':completion:*:(^approximate):*' matcher-list 'm:{a-z}={A-Z}'
 
 # Allow one mistake per three characters. Thanks to the book "From Bash to Z
@@ -615,15 +625,18 @@ fi
 # Make sure aliases are expanded when using sudo.
 alias sudo='sudo '
 
-# Global aliases for often used commands in the command line.
+# Global aliaes for often used redirections.
 alias -g E='2>&1'
-alias -g L='E | less'
-alias -g D='E | colordiff L'
+alias -g L='2>&1 | less'
+alias -g D='2>&1 | colordiff | less'
+# Global aliases for often used commands in the command line.
+alias -g A='| awk'
 alias -g G='| grep'
-alias -g S='| sort'
-alias -g U='| uniq'
 alias -g H='| head'
+alias -g P='| perl'
+alias -g S='| sort'
 alias -g T='| tail'
+alias -g U='| uniq'
 
 # Make going up directories simple.
 alias -g ...='../..'
@@ -645,17 +658,17 @@ fi
 # Display all branches (except stash) in gitk but only 200 commits as this is
 # much faster. Also put in the background and disown. Thanks to drizzd in #git
 # on Freenode (2010-04-03 17:55 CEST).
-gitk() {
+(( $+commands[gitk] )) && gitk() {
     command gitk --max-count=200 --branches --remotes --tags "$@" &
     disown %command
 }
 # Same for tig (except the disown part as it's no GUI program).
-tig() {
+(( $+commands[tig] )) && tig() {
     command tig --max-count=200 --branches --remotes --tags "$@"
 }
 
 # Pipe output through less.
-tree() {
+(( $+commands[tree] )) && tree() {
     command tree -C "$@" | less
 }