Return to Answer

Get rid of that _gd function and just add the following to your .zshrc file:

autoload -Uz compinit compinit zstyle ':completion:*' matcher-list 'r:|?=**' 

This tells the completion code to allow any number of additional between and around what you’ve types. With this, Zsh can now fuzzy complete anything.

In more detail:

• ?= matches any one character.
• r:|? matches any substring that ends (r) in ? (any one character).
• r:|?=* says, in your input, from left to right, find a substring that ends in ? (any one character), insert a * (wildcard, which matches any number of characters) into the position indicated by the | and try to find completion matches with that. If that fails, find the next such input substring, until you either find one or more completion matches or you run out of substrings.
• r:|?=** says, in your input, find every substring that ends in ? (any one character), insert a wildcard (*) into every position indicated by the | and try to find completion matches with that.
• Finally, by default, Zsh already adds a wildcard to the end of your input, thus completing the circle for full fuzzy matching.

You can find the documentation over here: http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/Completion-Widgets.html#Completion-Matching-Control

Get rid of that _gd function and just add the following to your .zshrc file:

autoload -Uz compinit compinit zstyle ':completion:*' matcher-list 'r:|?=**' 

This tells the completion code to allow any number of additional between and around what you’ve types. With this, Zsh can now fuzzy complete anything.

• r:X|Y=Z looks for all non-overlapping substrings that match pattern XY and makes it so the part matched by X also matches anything matched by pattern Z when checking for matching completions.
• ? matches any one character.
• If X or Y equals *, it matches any number of consecutive characters.
• If Z equals *, it matches any number of consecutive characters except anything matched by Y. 
• If Z equals **, it matches any number of consecutive characters.
• In r:|?=**, X equals the empty string.
• By default, Zsh already adds a wildcard to the end of your input, thus completing the circle for full fuzzy matching.

You can find the documentation over here: http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/Completion-Widgets.html#Completion-Matching-Control

Get rid of that _gd function and just add the following to your .zshrc file:

autoload -Uz compinit compinit zstyle ':completion:*' matcher-list 'r:|?=**' 

This tells the completion code to allow any number of additional between and around what you’ve types. With this, Zsh can now fuzzy complete anything.

In more detail:

• ?= matches any one character.
• r:|? matches any substring that ends (r) in ? (any one character).
• r:|?=* says, in your input, from left to right, find a substring that ends in ? (any one character), insert a * (wildcard, which matches any number of characters) into the position indicated by the | and try to find completion matches with that. If that fails, find the next such input substring, until you either find one or more completion matches or you run out of substrings.
• r:|?=** says, in your input, find every substring that ends in ? (any one character), insert a wildcard (*) into every position indicated by the | and try to find completion matches with that.
• Finally, by default, Zsh already adds a wildcard to the end of your input, thus completing the circle for full fuzzy matching.

Get rid of that _gd function and just add the following to your .zshrc file:

autoload -Uz compinit compinit zstyle ':completion:*' matcher-list 'r:|?=**' 

This tells the completion code to allow any number of additional between and around what you’ve types. With this, Zsh can now fuzzy complete anything.

In more detail:

• ?= matches any one character.
• r:|? matches any substring that ends (r) in ? (any one character).
• r:|?=* says, in your input, from left to right, find a substring that ends in ? (any one character), insert a * (wildcard, which matches any number of characters) into the position indicated by the | and try to find completion matches with that. If that fails, find the next such input substring, until you either find one or more completion matches or you run out of substrings.
• r:|?=** says, in your input, find every substring that ends in ? (any one character), insert a wildcard (*) into every position indicated by the | and try to find completion matches with that.
• Finally, by default, Zsh already adds a wildcard to the end of your input, thus completing the circle for full fuzzy matching.

You can find the documentation over here: http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/Completion-Widgets.html#Completion-Matching-Control

Get rid of that _gd function and just add the following to your .zshrc file:

autoload -Uz compinit compinit zstyle ':completion:*' matcher-list 'r:|?=**' 

This tells the completion code to allow any number of additional between and around what you’ve types. With this, Zsh can now fuzzy complete anything.

In more detail:

• ?= matches any one character you’ve typed.
• r:|? anchors it to the right, meaning that the algorithm will look for any part of a completion that ends on the right with this character.
• =* matches any number of characters in the possible completions.
• r:|?=* matches any one character you’ve typed and allows any number of additional characters before it in completions.
• r:|?=** means the same, but repeated any number of times.
• Finally, by default, Zsh already matches completions with any number of characters to the right of what you’ve typed, thus completing the circle for full fuzzy matching.

Get rid of that _gd function and just add the following to your .zshrc file:

autoload -Uz compinit compinit zstyle ':completion:*' matcher-list 'r:|?=**' 

This tells the completion code to allow any number of additional between and around what you’ve types. With this, Zsh can now fuzzy complete anything.

In more detail:

• ?= matches any one character.
• r:|? matches any substring that ends (r) in ? (any one character).
• r:|?=* says, in your input, from left to right, find a substring that ends in ? (any one character), insert a * (wildcard, which matches any number of characters) into the position indicated by the | and try to find completion matches with that. If that fails, find the next such input substring, until you either find one or more completion matches or you run out of substrings.
• r:|?=** says, in your input, find every substring that ends in ? (any one character), insert a wildcard (*) into every position indicated by the | and try to find completion matches with that.
• Finally, by default, Zsh already adds a wildcard to the end of your input, thus completing the circle for full fuzzy matching.