On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 1:09 AM Oliver Kiddle <opk@zsh.org> wrote:
>
> On 27 Apr, Marlon Richert wrote:
> > This patch improves the extra-verbose completion display strings for
> > arrays and associative arrays.
> > -    verbose=(
> > -        ${described[@]:/(#m)*/"${MATCH}:${(@q+)${(Pkv@q+)MATCH}//\\/\\\\}"} )
> > +    verbose=( ${${${(f@)"$( typeset -m $described )"}/=/:}[@]//'\'/'\\'} )
>
> Why the use of -m here? Is that to avoid it creating variables (which
> may not matter especially in the subshell). Do we need to be concerned
> about the possibility of glob characters appearing there and producing
> more output than expected?

Here's a new version of the patch, which hopefully addresses the
concerns above and has a satisfactorily descriptive commit message.