named directory completion

named directory completion

[Le Wang]

Hi all,

I'm having trouble completing stuff like ~username on
solaris 8.  It works for some users but for others Zsh
seems to want to usr their login shell as home dir:

-----
lewang % cd ~wmwong
lewang@verve | ~wmwong
wmwong % cd ~lewang
cd: no such file or directory: /usr/bin/kshg
Exit Status 1
lewang@verve | ~wmwong
wmwong %                         
----

everything works fine before I load compinit, and I
load it using the following:

autoload -U compinit
compinit

Thanks.  and ohh yeah, HAPPY (American) Thanks Giving!
-lw

p.s. I think this is a "named directory" completion. 
Please correct me if I'm wrong.

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Re: named directory completion

[Peter Stephenson]

Le Wang wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm having trouble completing stuff like ~username on
> solaris 8.  It works for some users but for others Zsh
> seems to want to usr their login shell as home dir:

I've been seeing something like this, intermittently, on earlier versions
of Solaris, too, but never had time to investigate in detail.  Possibly
there's some bug in the NIS handling in completion.  It's still there with
up-to-date code.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>                  Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 392070


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Re: named directory completion

[Le Wang]

I'm using version 4.0.4 of Zsh.


--- Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> wrote:
> Le Wang wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm having trouble completing stuff like ~username
> on
> > solaris 8.  It works for some users but for others
> Zsh
> > seems to want to usr their login shell as home
> dir:
> 
> I've been seeing something like this,
> intermittently, on earlier versions
> of Solaris, too, but never had time to investigate
> in detail.  Possibly
> there's some bug in the NIS handling in completion. 
> It's still there with
> up-to-date code.
> 
> -- 
> Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>                 
> Software Engineer
> CSR Ltd., Science Park, Milton Road,
> Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK                          Tel:
> +44 (0)1223 392070
> 
> 
>
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