zsh: Do NOT expand wildcard on tab completion

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Published on 2014-08-18T16:15:43Z Indexed on 2014/08/18 16:30 UTC
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I'm wondering how I can configure ZSH to NOT expand the wildcard in a filename. So for example I have a directory of a couple hundred files named like so:

a.foo-bar a.foo b.foo-bar b.foo c.foo-bar c.foo

I would like to be able to perform a tab completion matching AFTER a wildcard, so

cat *.foo-< tab > => cat *.foo-bar

instead what I get is

cat *.foo-< tab > => cat a.foo-bar

file

a.foo-bar b.foo-bar c.foo-bar

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