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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: completion fails if dir referenced via variable.
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 18:32:15 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <140226183215.ZM3679@torch.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <530D11D3.5050804@eastlink.ca>

On Feb 25,  1:57pm, Ray Andrews wrote:
}
} BTW another strange thing: if I start a fresh shell, I can't expand a 
} variable unless I 'echo' it first. The variable is certainly set, and it 
} echos to screen, but without echoing it, it will not expand nohow. Any 
} reason of that?

I'm guessing this is going to depend on which variable you're trying.
Some variables are autoloaded from modules and appear when you reference
them with $varname, but wouldn't be around yet to be completed when you
first attempt it.


  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-27  2:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-04  4:09 How to make a function use inbuilt completions of another command? Keerthan jai.c
2014-02-04 15:39 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-02-04 16:10   ` Frank Terbeck
2014-02-04 18:08     ` Bart Schaefer
2014-07-21  0:52       ` Keerthan jai.c
2014-02-04 16:25   ` Access command that called a function within the function Ray Andrews
2014-02-05  3:46     ` Bart Schaefer
2014-02-05 18:33       ` Ray Andrews
2014-02-05 20:21         ` Bart Schaefer
2014-02-05 22:54           ` Ray Andrews
2014-02-22 18:35           ` key bindings table? Ray Andrews
2014-02-23 23:40             ` Bart Schaefer
2014-02-24  3:31               ` Ray Andrews
2014-02-25 15:21           ` completion fails if dir referenced via variable Ray Andrews
2014-02-25 17:46             ` Bart Schaefer
2014-02-25 18:25               ` Ray Andrews
2014-02-25 19:21                 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-02-25 19:41                   ` Ray Andrews
2014-02-27  2:29                     ` Bart Schaefer
2014-02-27  5:06                       ` Ray Andrews
2014-02-27  5:34                         ` key codes table Ray Andrews
2014-03-01  5:08                           ` Bart Schaefer
2014-03-01 20:44                             ` Ray Andrews
2014-03-01 22:50                               ` shawn wilson
2014-03-02 17:27                                 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-03-02 18:18                                   ` shawn wilson
2014-03-03  1:52                                     ` Ray Andrews
2014-02-25 20:02                   ` completion fails if dir referenced via variable Oliver Kiddle
2014-02-25 21:57                     ` Ray Andrews
2014-02-27  2:32                       ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2014-02-05 22:45       ` Access command that called a function within the function Ray Andrews

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