We are almost done with this adventure, and it seems you are now more ready than ever to start tackling major annoyances like your favorite program not having a set of completion definitions. Even better, you can tweak and improve the existing functionality, which otherwise would make your work really frustrating.
Besides writing your own functions, we also learned how to tweak the shell behavior and go a step above filename completion. With a bit of practice and further tweaking, you can now become a real speed demon of the command line. Best of all, it only takes a couple of Tab presses to get there.
Summing it up, here's what's covered in this chapter:
The types of completion available to zsh—zstyles and functions, which allow you to customize the behavior of the completion mechanism and extend its functionality
The different types of completers (particularly
correct,approximate&ignore) and their role when defining zstylesA few tips for creating and extending your our own completion...