From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15315 invoked by alias); 7 Jan 2015 15:29:29 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Users List List-Post: List-Help: X-Seq: 19694 Received: (qmail 4267 invoked from network); 7 Jan 2015 15:29:14 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI, SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-AuditID: cbfec7f5-b7fc86d0000066b7-4e-54ad50c9043b Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 15:28:56 +0000 From: Peter Stephenson To: zsh-users@zsh.org Subject: Re: completion Message-id: <20150107152856.0a347dec@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> In-reply-to: <20150107150109.GA14088@ypig.lip.ens-lyon.fr> References: <5488D414.6010300@eastlink.ca> <30453.1418258082@thecus.kiddle.eu> <5488F0AC.2040901@eastlink.ca> <141210214454.ZM12261@torch.brasslantern.com> <5489C8F4.8030703@eastlink.ca> <141211092824.ZM13349@torch.brasslantern.com> <5489F1BC.5000900@eastlink.ca> <20150107150109.GA14088@ypig.lip.ens-lyon.fr> Organization: Samsung Cambridge Solution Centre X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9 (GTK+ 2.22.0; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Brightmail-Tracker: H4sIAAAAAAAAA+NgFlrKLMWRmVeSWpSXmKPExsVy+t/xa7onA9aGGOz6KGyx4+RKRgdGj1UH PzAFMEZx2aSk5mSWpRbp2yVwZdz7tZC14B9Lxc6PcQ2M35m7GDk5JARMJE6uPcgCYYtJXLi3 nq2LkYtDSGApo8SdX8sYIZxFTBIvDnWyQzjbGCVW7TjDDtLCIqAq8XvlHEYQm03AUGLqptlg toiAqMTyFZvBaoQFxCVmTL8BFOfg4BWwl5i9pRAkzClgJXHszC+obbuZJJ6cPQ52Br+AvsTV v5+YIE6yl5h55QzYTF4BQYkfk++B1TALaEls3tbECmHLS2xe8xbsHSEBdYkbd3ezT2AUmoWk ZRaSlllIWhYwMq9iFE0tTS4oTkrPNdIrTswtLs1L10vOz93ECAnarzsYlx6zOsQowMGoxMOr MHlNiBBrYllxZe4hRgkOZiUR3je/gEK8KYmVValF+fFFpTmpxYcYmTg4pRoYM65LssjMtm10 f8jy0sF2jnOYXyyDeOQCRbnLD1mXZd5nePNxhdK7Yu+XEyYfdcnXE2bW77K//lVL9/3W0OeP DVeLCdlnMq89FSt5eXNh2+5t4ou7Pl1KOLaz5GHnkZ+7RP+Ln72y/cTdxfuyp87+lFab1amx XHZhY4hIptdL17TX/5bfDuoIVWIpzkg01GIuKk4EAJLGeFM4AgAA On Wed, 7 Jan 2015 16:01:09 +0100 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2014-12-11 11:34:20 -0800, Ray Andrews wrote: > > Anyway, knowing that the star replaces the colons cracks it open. > > This is a bit old, but... When can an asterisk replace a colon? Colons aren't special to pattern matching at all. > If an asterisk can match anything, there may be an ambiguity on > which field some given word will match. Yes, they are ambiguous. The examples probably could do with fixing. With some of the more complicated things you can do, this can actually be hard to work around, I seem to remember. pws