Re: [PATCH] Quote components before using it is pattern

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>]

On Aug 21,  2:46pm, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
} Subject: Re: [PATCH] Quote components before using it is pattern
}
} On 14 October 2008 17:01, Jorg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> wrote:

Wow, digging back into history a bit here ...

} >> A component might contain a character active in patterns, like * or ().
} >>
} >> The characters in the temporary variable tmp1 must be quote, before the
} >> pattern is build with them.
} 
} This patch sort of breaks completing when the first segment has spaces
} for me.

As has come up elsewhere, the problem is that ${(q)...} is a bit too
aggressive for the purpose to which it is being put.  We need to quote
pattern characters in tmp1, but not other characters like spaces.

There's a rather ugly hunk of code in _path_files that does something
like this (see the comment "Explanation of substitution: ...") but
unfortunately I don't have time this morning to try to adapt it for
_multi_parts.