two very simple questions

two very simple questions

[William Scott]

Hi Folks:

1.  I realize this one deserves a RTFM answer, but I haven't been able 
to find it.

If I type

cp file1.txt file2.txt

and file2.txt doesn't already exist, zsh offers to "correct" the second 
argument by making it file1.txt.

Same with mv

This is really annoying. Is there a way to turn off the correction 
mechanism for the second argument but not the first?


2.  I built zsh 4.2.1 on OS X v. 10.3.5 and when I run make check, it 
hangs here:

./Y01completion.ztst: starting.

So far all the completions seem to be working in practice.  Should I 
worry about this?

Thanks.

Bill

Re: two very simple questions

[Bart Schaefer]

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, William Scott wrote:

> cp file1.txt file2.txt
> 
> This is really annoying. Is there a way to turn off the correction 
> mechanism for the second argument but not the first?

No, there isn't.  The correction mechanism isn't yet programmable like 
completion.  (Consider also the case of

  cp file1 file2 directory

where you presumably want all three arguments corrected.)

> 2.  I built zsh 4.2.1 on OS X v. 10.3.5 and when I run make check, it hangs
> here:
> 
> ./Y01completion.ztst: starting.
> 
> So far all the completions seem to be working in practice.  Should I worry
> about this?

This probably indicates an error in the zpty module, so if you don't need 
that you can ignore the failure.  I believe there was a discussion about 
this on zsh-workers a while ago; hmm, the MACHINES file says this should 
be OK in 10.3.  I don't know any more about it.

Re: two very simple questions

[Jason Price]

I can't help with the second one, but the first one does have a work
around:

alias mv='nocorrect mv'
alias cp='nocorrect cp'

This will disable correction for these two commands.  See Bart's points
about why this might be a good idea (or not).

--Jason

On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 03:52:47PM -0700, William Scott wrote:
> Hi Folks:
> 
> 1.  I realize this one deserves a RTFM answer, but I haven't been able 
> to find it.
> 
> If I type
> 
> cp file1.txt file2.txt
> 
> and file2.txt doesn't already exist, zsh offers to "correct" the second 
> argument by making it file1.txt.
> 
> Same with mv
> 
> This is really annoying. Is there a way to turn off the correction 
> mechanism for the second argument but not the first?