From: Joke de Buhr <joke@seiken.de>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Completion and double quotes
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:53:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201008121253.54918.joke@seiken.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100812103126.64aa5bce@csr.com>
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On Thursday 12 August 2010 11:31:26 Peter Stephenson wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:30:08 +0200
>
> Joke de Buhr <joke@seiken.de> wrote:
> > Currently my completion is somehow configured to transform double
> > quoted paths to backslash escaped paths.
> >
> > Example:
> > ls /path/to/"file with"<TAB> -> /path/to/file\ with\ spaces
> >
> > I would like the completion not to touch the quotation.
>
> It's not configurable, but you can put the double quote right at the start
> of the filename and it probably does what you want.
>
If put the double quote right at the start is there any way to get the
completion to work paths beginning with "~" ? My completion doesn't offer
anything in these cases:
Example:
ls "~/<TAB> <-- no completion at all
Completion only works if the "~" is unquoted (like: ~"/<TAB>) but quotes later
on are destroyed during that process.
> The code for handling quoting in completion is utterly impenetrable. It's
> actually at it's worst when you're in a nested expression, for example
> inside:
>
> su -c 'ls /path/to/"file with"<TAB>
>
> which is quite liable to crash the shell (I didn't dare try). Even so,
> it's bad enough even in the "simple" case that I don't think it's ever
> going to be able to second guess intentions to the sort of level you want.
> Of course, as always, if someone has a few dozen of hours of spare time and
> wants to make it their life's work to improve, that's fine.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-12 10:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-11 19:30 Joke de Buhr
2010-08-11 21:51 ` Benjamin R. Haskell
2010-08-11 22:29 ` Joke de Buhr
2010-08-12 9:31 ` Peter Stephenson
2010-08-12 10:53 ` Joke de Buhr [this message]
2010-08-12 11:03 ` Peter Stephenson
2010-08-12 15:57 ` Bart Schaefer
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