On Tue, 2018-12-04 at 16:53 +0000, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> ls (#<TAB>
>
> doesn't complete as globbing flags are treated as a special case of glob
> qualifiers, which can't be completed here.
>
> Fairly minor but I can't see any good reason not to fix it.
This might be safer...
pws
diff --git a/Completion/Unix/Type/_files b/Completion/Unix/Type/_files
index d44ac31..e3212c9 100644
--- a/Completion/Unix/Type/_files
+++ b/Completion/Unix/Type/_files
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ if _have_glob_qual $PREFIX; then
_globquals && ret=0
fi
return ret
-elif [[ $_comp_caller_options[extendedglob] == on ]] && compset -P '\(\#'; then
+elif [[ $_comp_caller_options[extendedglob] == on && $PREFIX = \(\#[^\)]# ]] && compset -P '\(\#'; then
# Globbing flags can start at beginning of word, even though
# glob qualifiers can't.
_globflags && return