Allow completion to work with files starting with = (equal sign)

Allow completion to work with files starting with = (equal sign)

[François-Xavier Coudert]

Hi all,

Some of my files and directories have names beginning with = (the
equal sign). By using "unsetopt EQUALS", I can disable the standard
behaviour for =, and thus am able to use them properly. One thing that
still doesn't work, though, is the completion of filenames. Typing "cd
=fo" and TAB doesn't autocomplete to =foo, for example. (Completion
works fine for me otherwise.) How can I change this behaviour?

Regards,
FX

Re: Allow completion to work with files starting with = (equal sign)

[Peter Stephenson]

"=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois-Xavier_Coudert?=" wrote:
> Some of my files and directories have names beginning with = (the
> equal sign). By using "unsetopt EQUALS", I can disable the standard
> behaviour for =, and thus am able to use them properly. One thing that
> still doesn't work, though, is the completion of filenames. Typing "cd
> =fo" and TAB doesn't autocomplete to =foo, for example. (Completion
> works fine for me otherwise.) How can I change this behaviour?

This seems to be working fine for me with "compinit" at least as far
back as 4.2.6; it inserts a "\" if there isn't one there, but that's
harmless.  Are you using compinit?  If you're using the old builtin
completion it's likely to be more haphazard.

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