Expanding "foo\ *"

Expanding "foo\ *"

[Wayne Davison]

Here's a bug with the new completion system (I'm using 4.0.1-pre2,
but the bug predates this version):

% zsh -f
% autoload -U compinit
% compinit
% zstyle ':completion:*' completer _expand _complete
% touch 'foo bar' 'foo baz'
% bindkey '\t' complete-word
% ls -l foo\ *<TAB>
   (Error beep)
% ls -l foo\ ba*<TAB>
   (Error beep)
% ls -l foo*<TAB>
   (Expands)

So, it seems that the escaped space interferes with the expansion.

..wayne..

Re: Expanding "foo\ *"

[Bart Schaefer]

On Mar 10,  7:48pm, Wayne Davison wrote:
} Subject: Expanding "foo\ *"
}
} Here's a bug with the new completion system (I'm using 4.0.1-pre2,
} but the bug predates this version):
} 
} % ls -l foo\ *<TAB>
}    (Error beep)

Try this.  There should be a space and a tab at the end of the first `+'
line in the replacement part of the hunk, in case the mail system eats it.

Index: Completion/Core/_expand
===================================================================
diff -c -r1.48 _expand
--- Completion/Core/_expand	2001/02/08 03:49:32	1.48
+++ Completion/Core/_expand	2001/03/11 17:57:34
@@ -68,7 +68,8 @@
 # Now try globbing.
 
 [[ "$force" = *g* ]] || zstyle -T ":completion:${curcontext}:" glob &&
-    eval 'exp=( ${~exp} ); exp=( ${(q)exp} )' 2>/dev/null
+    eval 'exp=( ${~exp//(#b)\\[ 	
+]/$match[1]} ); exp=( ${(q)exp} )' 2>/dev/null
 
 ### Don't remember why we once used this instead of the (q) above.
 #    eval 'exp=( ${~exp} ); exp=( ${exp//(#b)([][()|*?^#~<>\\=])/\\${match[1]}} )' 2>/dev/null

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