From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by coral.primenet.com.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA10556 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 23:19:52 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA04864; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 09:13:53 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 09:11:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Zefram Message-Id: <6675.199609261311@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> Subject: Re: twiddle-number problem? To: colin@fuligin.loni.ucla.edu (Colin Holmes) Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 14:11:01 +0100 (BST) Cc: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: <9609251549.ZM12219@fuligin.loni.ucla.edu> from "Colin Holmes" at Sep 25, 96 03:49:10 pm X-Loop: zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk X-Stardate: [-31]8177.74 X-US-Congress: Moronic fuckers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"Rs1vl3.0.sA1.74eIo"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/425 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu >Can anyone explain how I can get tilde-user completion to >handle usernames starting with numbers? On SGIs, there's >a default user called "4Dgifts" that contains nice source >code examples and other goodies. *sigh* When I proposed using ~ instead of = for the directory stack, I assumed that no one would be perverse enough to have a username start with a digit or punctuation character. You'll have to give the directory some other name; "fourd=/home/4Dgifts" would make ~fourd work. -zefram