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Subject: RE: PATCH: files and paths and...
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> > and even
> >
> > d:\path\to\file (assuming proper quoting on shell level)
> >
> > as well. E.g. d:/temp is completely valid. Currently Zsh
> cannot complete
> > it:
>
> Of course, it can. We only need someone who writes it.
>
> Hm. I guess it understands that everywhere, yes? Not only in words
> starting with `?:/'. Otherwise someone could write something
> in _first
> to call `_files -W ...' if the current word starts with that.
>
> If it understand this in `-foo=d:/...', then we need support in
> _path_files, but that would be possible (stuff it into prepath, etc
> etc...). But only when on cygwin, of course, probably only if the
> style support-cygwin(-s-rotten-paths-urgh) is set.
>

Yes. It understand it for any file name. You can even mix for-and
back-slashes:

mw1g017@MW1G17C:/cygdrive/d/temp/zsh% dd if='d:\temp/zsh\zsh.html'
of=foo
2184+1 records in
2184+1 records out


So, what is needed to support it is

- add backslash as path seprator to _path_files
- _path_files should recognize 'x:\' as "root".

Hmm ... there seems to be one more problem. Zsh can glob 'c:/Progr*' to
'c:/Program Files' but not 'c:\Progr*'. It seems, that it needs more
deep support; globbing code should recognize '\' as valid path separator
as well.

Oh, yes, and NT has case-insensitive file system, that means, globbing
should be case-insensitive by default as well.

-andrej