Re: Dynamic named directories and completion

[Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>]

On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 20:49:14 +0100
Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have some patches I was working on related to this, but I assume
> there was still some problem, or I would have committed them...
> There's two patches in this thread,
> http://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2015/msg01439.html and then I think I
> never sent the third one,

This is all quite complicated so I can well believe it's useful; I don't
think it fixes the behaviour I was seeing (but I may be getting
confused).

On the same theme, I think the following is useful for those of us
using the _expand completer, which may well have nothing whatsoever to
do with the original problem.

pws

diff --git a/Completion/Base/Completer/_expand b/Completion/Base/Completer/_expand
index a6e30e8..ee3681b 100644
--- a/Completion/Base/Completer/_expand
+++ b/Completion/Base/Completer/_expand
@@ -43,7 +43,8 @@ zstyle -s ":completion:${curcontext}:" accept-exact tmp ||
 
 if [[ "$tmp" != (yes|true|on|1) ]]; then
   { [[ "$word" = \~(|[-+]) ||
-       ( "$word" = \~[-+][1-9]## && $word[3,-1] -le $#dirstack ) ]] && return 1 }
+	   ( "$word" = \~[-+][1-9]## && $word[3,-1] -le $#dirstack ) ||
+     $word = \~\[*\]/* ]] && return 1 }
   { [[ ( "$word" = \~* && ${#userdirs[(I)${word[2,-1]}*]}+${#nameddirs[(I)${word[2,-1]}*]} -gt 1 ) ||
        ( "$word" = *\$[a-zA-Z0-9_]## && 
          ${#parameters[(I)${word##*\$}*]} -ne 1 ) ]] && continue=1 }