Re: Zsh autocompletion with no access to a parent directory

[Matt Wright <matt@sysctl.co.uk>]

Apologies for necroing this thread but I've hit a snag with this stuff and I can't work out whats going on. I threw some debug in around the code you changed in _path_files but all the paths look sane. After that it barrels off down compfiles code and my brain leapt out my left armpit.

If I do the following, using the _path_files changes you supplied me long ago:

# mkdir -p /tmp/foo\~bar/test
# ls /tmp/foo~bar/te<TAB>

All I get is:

[caesium: ~]$ ls /tmp/foo~bar/te
No matches found for: `files'

If I back up and TAB at the end of "foo~bar", zsh changes my prompt to:

[caesium: ~]$ ls /tmp/foo\~bar/ 

After which, it carries on completing properly. There's also a case I have at work where pressing tab in a setup like this appears to expand the ~ to \~ and then copy the entire completion path again. Though I don't appear to be able to replicate it right now I'll give you the gist below incase it rings any bells.

# command /var/tmp/foo~quack/usr/lib/local/foo<tab>

This becomes:

# command /var/tmp/foo\~quack//var/tmp/foo~quack/usr/lib/local/foo

And things get very confused.

M

On Apr 30, 2010, at 1:32 AM, Peter Stephenson wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:14:33 -0700
> Matt Wright <matt@sysctl.co.uk> wrote:
>>> Matt, could you make sure this doesn't break anything?  Of course,
>>> with code this trivial it's hard to make a mistake.  Sob.
>> 
>> Tried to at work and git-apply hates the patch format. Not sure why.
>> Also patch -p0 wouldn't apply it cleanly to the current top-of-git.
> 
> It should apply OK to what's in the archive (and does here), but I did
> change the previous patch from what I gave you before, so it would be
> problematic with anything not under revision control...
> 
> Here's a patch against what was in the archive before I started tinkering
> with it so it should apply to something older, as well as the new
> patch.
> 
> pws
> 
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