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From: Francis GALIEGUE <francis@mandrakesoft.com>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: Complete Filenames With Spaces...
Date: 12 Jan 2000 18:22:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3hfgjciid.fsf@toy.mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Rafael Garcia's message of "Wed, 12 Jan 2000 17:38:32 +0100"

Rafael Garcia <rgarcia@eurielec.etsit.upm.es> writes:

> 	Hi, first time writing to the list (just subscribed)...
> 
> 	I would like to know if there is *any* way to make zsh complete
> filenames that include spaces; that is, after a first completion up to a
> "with-spaces" point pressing <tab> completes nothing, while pressing <tab>
> if no spaces were in the previuos completion works perfectly.
> 
> 	Thanks.

The problem is that a space is an argument separator. What you suggest
is the Bad Way(tm). The Good Way(tm) is to isolate the space with a
backslash (as in a\ <TAB> which gives the expected result, a\ file) or
to use double quotes or single quotes ("a <TAB>, 'a <TAB>).

-- 
fg

# rm *;o
o: command not found


  reply	other threads:[~2000-01-12 17:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-01-12 16:38 Rafael Garcia
2000-01-12 17:22 ` Francis GALIEGUE [this message]
2000-01-12 18:36   ` Rafael Garcia
2000-01-12 17:26 ` Bart Schaefer
2000-01-12 18:32   ` Rafael Garcia
2000-01-13  8:45     ` Rafael Garcia

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