file completion problem in 4.3.9-dev-2

file completion problem in 4.3.9-dev-2

[Greg Klanderman]

I see this issue more generally with my complete init files loaded.
Under the minimal configuration below, the problem is not as
reproducible, for example substituting "ls" for "cat", or completing
"temp/tom" from the next directory level up do not reproduce it,
whereas they do with my init files.

The problem seems to have to do with the space in the directory names;
if I remove the spaces, or substitute a character that does not need
to be escaped, I cannot reproduce the problem.

| [~] greg@lwm| zsh -f
| lwm% echo $ZSH_VERSION
| 4.3.9-dev-2
| lwm% echo $ZSH_PATCHLEVEL
| 1.4656
| lwm% rm .zcompdump
| lwm% autoload -U compinit
| lwm% compinit -u
| lwm% zstyle ':completion:*' matcher-list '' 'm:{a-zA-Z}={A-Za-z}' '+ l:|=* r:|=*'
| lwm% setopt noautomenu
| lwm% cd temp
| lwm% ls -l
| total 20
| drwxr-xr-x  2 greg greg 4096 Apr 21 10:28 Buffalo Tom
| drwxr-xr-x  2 greg greg 4096 Apr 21 10:28 Flanagan, Tommy
| drwxr-xr-x  2 greg greg 4096 Apr 21 10:28 Petty, Tom
| drwxr-xr-x  2 greg greg 4096 Apr 21 10:28 Russell, Tom
| drwxr-xr-x  2 greg greg 4096 Apr 21 10:28 Waits, Tom
| lwm%                  

Now if I type "cat tom" and hit <Control-d> to list completions, I see:

| lwm% cat tom
| Buffalo\ Tom/      Flanagan,\ Tommy/  Petty,\ Tom/       Russell,\ Tom/     Waits,\ Tom/

OK, now hit <tab> to complete and I get:

| lwm% cat \ Tom

OK, now <Control-d> lists:

| lwm% cat \ Tom
| Buffalo\ Tom/      Flanagan,\ Tommy/  Petty,\ Tom/       Russell,\ Tom/     Waits,\ Tom/

OK, now <tab> again *incorrectly* completes to:

| lwm% cat o\ Tom

thanks,
Greg

Re: file completion problem in 4.3.9-dev-2

[Richard Hartmann]

Unless there is an update on this, I would add this to the bug tracker.


Any nays?
Richard

Re: file completion problem in 4.3.9-dev-2

[Greg Klanderman]

>>>>> Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com> writes:

> Unless there is an update on this, I would add this to the bug tracker.
> Any nays?

OK by me.  Is the bug tracker publicly available yet?

BTW, Bart said he couldn't reproduce it on another thread ("another
file completion problem in 4.3.9-dev-2") and I have not gotten back to
look into it further.  I certainly plan to dig into it further at some
point, but since it'll probably require some effort, I'm planning to
focus on a couple other things first with my scarce zsh hacking time.

greg

Re: file completion problem in 4.3.9-dev-2

[Richard Hartmann]

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 20:46, Greg Klanderman <gak@klanderman.net> wrote:

> OK by me.  Is the bug tracker publicly available yet?

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=4068

Be aware that this is kind of a last resort and the main gist happens
on this list.


> BTW, Bart said he couldn't reproduce it on another thread ("another
> file completion problem in 4.3.9-dev-2") and I have not gotten back to
> look into it further.  I certainly plan to dig into it further at some
> point, but since it'll probably require some effort, I'm planning to
> focus on a couple other things first with my scarce zsh hacking time.

Should I wait a bit before filing it, then?


RIchard