Re: completion with prefix which contains meta character.

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

Tanaka Akira wrote:

> In article <200001061503.QAA19187@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de>,
>   Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de> writes:
> 
> > Yup. Since $PREFIX contains the quoted form, compset should use it, too.
> 
> Now, `echo =<TAB>' completes nothing.

Ugh.

> ...
> 
> Replacing the compset pattern \= with = works well, but they should
> have same bahaviour, I think.

I first wanted to agree, then had a closer look at the quoting in the
completion code again and now I'm not so sure again.

Currently the completion code quotes only characters that need to be
quoted. And it reports only such characters (in $PREFIX and friends)
in quoted form.

With respect to this, the behaviour of compset is now consistent.

So the question is: should we change compset or not -- making it
differ from the rest? Or should we just document the way the code
quotes in the manual?

Still, here is the patch for _main_complete, the state this leaves the 
code in will stay valid independent of the answer for the questions
above.

Bye
 Sven

diff -ru ../z.old/Completion/Core/_main_complete Completion/Core/_main_complete
--- ../z.old/Completion/Core/_main_complete	Thu Jan  6 16:04:09 2000
+++ Completion/Core/_main_complete	Fri Jan  7 10:21:23 2000
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 
 # Special completion contexts after `~' and `='.
 
-if compset -P 1 '\='; then
+if compset -P 1 '='; then
   compstate[context]=equal
 elif [[ "$PREFIX" != */* && "$PREFIX[1]" = '~' ]]; then
   compset -p 1

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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de