compinit causes strange tab completion on '<'

compinit causes strange tab completion on '<'

[Jeff]

in case it matters. zsh 4.2.5
kernel 2.6.15
I have discovered some odd behavior with tab completion when compinit is 
loaded even with default completion set.

I like to use the'<' builtin  instead of cat

a user with no .zshrc file

%pwd
/etc
% < init.d/[tab]
gives correct file listing of /etc/init.d/
%< ./init.d/[tab]
gives correct file listing of /etc/init.d/
%< /etc/init.d/[tab]
gives correct file listing of /etc/init.d/
%cat /etc/int.d/[tab]
gives correct file listing of /etc/init.d/


%autoload -U compinit;compinit

%pwd
/etc
% < init.d/[tab]
gives correct file listing of /etc/init.d/
%< ./init.d/[tab]
gives no completion
%< /etc/init.d/[tab]
gives no completion
%cat /etc/int.d/[tab]
gives correct file listing of /etc/init.d/
%cat ./init.d/[tab]
gives correct file listing of /etc/init.d/

so basically what is going wrong is that if the path I am trying to 
expand with tab starts with a / , ./ or  ../  then  no 
expansion/completion occurs.

what can I do do make completion work correctly with "<" ?

Re: compinit causes strange tab completion on '<'

[Bart Schaefer]

On Feb 13,  3:24am, Jeff wrote:
}
} %< ./init.d/[tab]
} gives no completion
} %< /etc/init.d/[tab]
} gives no completion

This is a problem with either the _redirect completer or the _set_command
utility funtion, depending on how you look at it.  _redirect calls
_set_command to find the name of the command to which input is being
redirected, but in this case there is none.   _set_command incorrectly
returns /etc/init.d as the command name and conseqently the completion
system tries to complete arguments for init scripts, rather than the
names of the init scripts.

I'm not immediately sure what to do about it, though.

-- 
Bart Schaefer
http://www.well.com/user/barts