Re: help with _match, globcomplete etc. (with a PATCH)

["Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com>]

On Feb 16, 11:11am, Sven Wischnowsky wrote:
} Subject: Re: help with _match, globcomplete etc. (with a PATCH)
}
} Bart Schaefer wrote:
} 
} > 	zsh% arr=('[sS]' Src/M ../)
} > 	zsh% print -l ${~^arr}*
} > 
} > (I note that on that example expand-word produces a list of files but
} > the _expand completer (with substitute and glob styles set to 1) only
} > beeps, with or without 9752 applied.  Is that the right behavior?)
} 
} No. Seems like the (e) flag makes the thing be quoted as in double
} quotes. I.e. with a='${~^arr}*', ${(e)a} gives `[sS] Src/M ../*', but
} a='${(@)~^arr}' gives what we would have expected. The patch below
} changes the calls to parsestr() to calls to parse_subst_string() to
} get that. Hm, should we call that only conditionally, e.g. if the
} ${(e)...} is not inquotes and has no (@) or something?

My first reaction would be to answer "yes," and a little fooling around
with 9757 applied seems to bear it out:

 a='*'
 print -l "${(e)a}"

Would you really expect to get one file name per line in that case?

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