Re: PATCH: _complete_debug and Re: Completion troubles

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

On May 2, 12:50pm, Oliver Kiddle wrote:
}
} > Use _complete_debug, ^X?, and examine the trace file.
} 
} I actually, have nedit aliased to /usr/local/bin/nc and _complete_debug
} had a few problems creating a trace file with lots of slashes in its
} name.

Ooops.

} With the print -zR line in _complete_debug, why is $VISUAL and $EDITOR
} used? Why would anyone want to edit the trace file?

I always want to edit the trace file.  It's much easier to search forward
and backward in most editors than it is in most pagers, and I also find it
helpful to be able to delete (or hide with narrowing in emacs) large parts
of the trace that I have determined to be unrelated to the problem.

} > } The other thing is the _expand completer now seems to be expanding
} > } everything after a tilde which is annoying.
} > 
} > Hmm, that doesn't happen to me;  I get this sort of thing:
} 
} You get what I would expect. Try setting the glob style to a true value.

Ah.  That's a little odd, since `glob' ususally means filename generation
and `~' is filename expansion, but there probably isn't any useful way to
distinguish the two during _expand.

} You're right about substitute being true as being significant. I'm not
} sure that your fix has worked enitiely though - I get an error message
} about the closing brace being expected. What do you get if you do:
} exp='${foo'
} echo $(print -lR - ${(e)exp} 2>/dev/null)

Hmm, I was sure I tested that.  Got the redirection in the wrong place.

--- zsh-forge/current/Completion/Core/_expand	Mon May  1 10:58:58 2000
+++ Completion/Core/_expand	Tue May  2 08:04:07 2000
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
   { [[ "$curcontext" = expand-word:* ]] && expr=1 } } &&
     [[ "${(e):-\$[$expr]}" -eq 1 ]] &&
     exp=( ${(f)"$(print -lR - ${(e)exp//\\[ 	
-]/ } 2>/dev/null)"} )
+]/ })"} ) 2>/dev/null
 
 # If the array is empty, store the original string again.
 

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