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  • While this is effectively not the ideal way to do it, since it keeps trying to complete after typing stuff, it does effectively solve my problem. I tried using -S (which didn't work) but didn't try using -s, since it refused the empty separator... I should have tried using slashes directly (they were currently in my _values already, so I had to remove the trailing slashes for this method to work.) Commented Nov 19, 2018 at 13:02
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    @Lery figured it out, compset can look for the / and based on that disable completion Commented Nov 19, 2018 at 15:08
  • I think I've found a bug with this compset solution: suppose I have a path like this: foo/bar/zen; fee/zen/bar; fee/foo/bar; When I type f and try to autocomplete with tab, then press enter to select fee/ and type the first letter of the next subfolder, say z, the autocompletion will show "no matches found". It's even worse if I type manually fee/z then the autocompletion directly does nothing. I'm guessing it's because of the way compset is modifying the iprefix, maybe, but I'm not sure. Commented Nov 27, 2018 at 14:50
  • What I want to do seems very close to what is asked in this question: stackoverflow.com/questions/42526436/… it's a shame it remained unanswered. And it seems _values is not a solution. I've also tried specifying -S / and specifying in my values that they accept an argument, but to no avail. When I'm typing we<tab> to get to web/, if I keep typing web/f<tab>, it won't keep completing, no matter what solution I'm trying. Would you happen to have any idea to solve this? Commented Dec 19, 2018 at 17:40
  • The SO question linked in the comment above now has an answer, which solve a similar issue I was having. :-) Commented Feb 21, 2019 at 13:23