Re: PATCH: Re: pws-10 RE: zsh-3.1.5-pws-9: _path_files and symbolic links

[Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de>]

Peter Stephenson wrote:

> (Phew, I hope I don't have to rewrite all my completions again...
> Just have to wait and see if Bart excoriates `compgen'.)

(So you have some as yet unrevealed completion functions?)

Phew, I hope I don't have to change all the completion functions again ;-)

> > Ah, tricky. The patch below makes path components be left unchanged
> > only if the rest of the string would produce a match below that
> > directory.
> 
> Was that all that needed doing?  I knew about this, but didn't complain
> about this because I thought it was a feature which would need a lot of
> work to alter.

My big patch also contained some other fixes in _path_files. Without
them it would indeed be more complicated.

Bye
 Sven

diff -u oc/Commands/_most_recent_file Completion/Commands/_most_recent_file
--- oc/Commands/_most_recent_file	Mon Mar  1 16:42:45 1999
+++ Completion/Commands/_most_recent_file	Mon Mar  1 16:44:50 1999
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #defkeycomp complete-word \C-xm
-local file tilde exptilde
+local file tilde etilde
 if [[ $PREFIX = \~*/ ]]; then
   tilde=${PREFIX%%/*}
   etilde=${~tilde}

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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de