that just solves a single instance, most people including me are not experts on this, and just want it to work, while I get around it by adding a '/' at the end of doc others might be just very annoyed. On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 14:25, Clint Adams wrote: > > might it be more friendly to tab'ers to rename the dir base-doc instead > > of doc-base > > That seems like overkill. Just do something like > > zstyle ':completion:*' ignored-patterns 'doc-base'