ZSH directory expansion ('..' into '../')

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I've recently started to learn and use ZSH.

The problem I'm facing is that ZSH won't auto-expand '..' in commands (like 'cd', 'cp' and so on) into '../'. Bash does this.

This wouldn't be such an big issue if I were using keyboard with US-layout... but in scandinavia '/' is behind SHIFT+7 so hitting is much faster.

How would I go on and implement such automatic expansion? I'm usin 'Oh my ZSH' package. Typing CTRL+xh after typing 'cd ..' gives the following:

21:16:50 amjr@imac development ruby-1.9.2-p290 cd ..
tags in context :completion::complete:cd::
    local-directories named-directories      (_alternative _cd (eval)) 
    users named-directories directory-stack  (_tilde _alternative _cd (eval)) 
    users                                    (_users _tilde _alternative _cd (eval))

Any help would be appreciated!

Do you want zsh to add a `/` when you've just typed `..`? Or when you press `TAB` after `..`? Or something else? — Gilles 'SO- stop being evil', Jan 05 '12 at 23:11

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 08 '12 at 15:36

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What I was trying to achieve is that when I hit after typing '..' it would expand it into '../'.

I managed to get this working by adding:

zstyle ':completion:*' special-dirs true

into my .zshrc

answered Jan 08 '12 at 15:36

amjr

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