From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Adam McNeeney <adam@meliorist.co.uk>, zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: Directory Name ?Bug
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 15:45:10 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1020415154511.ZM9166@candle.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020415082504.GA29414@meliorist.co.uk>
On Apr 15, 9:25am, Adam McNeeney wrote:
} Subject: Directory Name ?Bug
}
} When I tab complete/type in with appropriate backslashes a directory
} name containing a single ' charocter and a space gets the complaint
} that there is an unmatched ' and brings you back to the prompt.
First question, are you using the "new" completion system (loaded from
your startup files with `compinit') or are you using default completion
(based on the `compctl' command)?
If you're using `compinit', then instead of TAB, type ctrl-X and then a
question mark. This will dump a debugging trace of the completion attempt
to a file in /tmp. (There's no such facility with default completion.)
Does the "unmatched" error affect every command after which you attempt to
complete this directory, or only for `cd' commands, or ...?
} The only way that I have found to do anything with this directory is
} to escape appropriate characters _and_ put it in double quotes.
Define "do anything." Does something go wrong in a case other than tab
completion? *Exactly* what are you trying to complete -- the directory
name itself, or files inside that directory (where the whole directory
name is already on the command line)?
} e.g.:
} File name: don't stop
} How I tried to refer to it: don\'t\ stop
} How I had to refer to it: "don\'t\ stop"
This is not enough information. We need to see the entire and exact
string that is present at the zsh prompt right before you press TAB.
} If it's useful, I'm using zsh 4.0.4.
The zsh version number is always essential.
I can't reproduce the behavior you describe, but I really don't know if
I'm trying the same things you are.
--
Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises
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