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From: Frank Terbeck <ft@bewatermyfriend.org>
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Subject: Re: Safety check before expanding globs?
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	(Mikael Magnusson's message of "Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:28:13 +0200")
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Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:42:30 +0200
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Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> On 30 July 2011 00:41, Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
>>  quux /foo/bar/*<tab>
[...]
> You might like the list-expand binding. Contrary to the name it
> doesn't expand anything, it just lists the result of a glob below the
> prompt.

The `_expand' completer is quite useful too. See "man zshcompsys" on
that function for details.

Regards, Frank