Re: Completion bug with `pwd`?

Re: Completion bug with `pwd`?

[Andrej Borsenkow]

-----Original Message-----
From: Zefram <zefram@tao.co.uk>
To: Andrej Borsenkow <borsenkow.msk@sni.de>
Cc: <zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu>


>Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
>>itsrm2% cat `pwd`/defTAB ==>
>>itsrm2% cat /home/bor/tmp/stawropol/def <=CURSOR here (after one space)
>
>Presumably you have tab bound to expand-or-complete, which will expand
>command substitutions rather than doing completion.
>

Yes. It seems to be default in ZSH :))

What is the correct way to do the above? (There are several commands which
insists on having the absolute pathname).

/Andrej

Re: Completion bug with `pwd`?

[Zefram]

Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
>What is the correct way to do the above? (There are several commands which
>insists on having the absolute pathname).

Use "$PWD" or "~+" instead of "`pwd`".  It is possible to perform pathname
completion leaving pathname expansions and parameter expansions in the
word, where command substitutions must be expanded.  It also saves a
process (and some time) and avoids the ambiguity of command substitution.

-zefram

Re: Completion bug with `pwd`?

[Zefram]

Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
>itsrm2% cat `pwd`/defTAB ==>
>itsrm2% cat /home/bor/tmp/stawropol/def <=CURSOR here (after one space)

Presumably you have tab bound to expand-or-complete, which will expand
command substitutions rather than doing completion.

-zefram

Completion bug with `pwd`?

[Andrej Borsenkow]

Something strange ...

echo $ZSH_VERSION
3.1.4
zsh -f
itsrm2% pwd
/home/bor/tmp/stawropol
itsrm2% ls def*
default1log  default2log
itsrm2% cat `pwd`/defTAB ==>
itsrm2% cat /home/bor/tmp/stawropol/def <=CURSOR here (after one space)

simple cat defTAB or cat /home/bor/tmp/stawropol/defTAB work O.K.

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