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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
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Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 16:42:27 -0700
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Comments: In reply to Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
 "Re: No way to properly complete specific set of files" (Apr 28,  7:12pm)
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On Apr 28,  7:12pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
}
} _path_files -g "(${(j.|.)~files})"
} 
} relying on an extended_glob pattern to match any of the files.  That's
} not perfect --- in particular if there are metacharacters in the
} file names they'll confuse it.

Wouldn't

    _path_files -g "(${(j.|.)~${(@q)files}})"

do it?