PATCH: Re: colonic _values with paths

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

Peter Stephenson wrote:

> This is rather minor, but I happened to notice.
> 
> _values always adds a suffix `:' when it's dealing with colon-separated
> arrays. 

You mean `_value'. We have both of them. In the same directory.
Terribly irritating.

> This is actually pretty annoying if the elements of the array are
> paths, when you'd prefer to have the usual `/' and add a `:' by hand where
> necessary.  How about only adding the `:' if the element doesn't already
> contain a `/' or initial `~'?  Or suppose I get in the habit of using
> `typeset -T' and adding things to real arrays?  Maybe the second
> alternative is better.

I wasn't sure which is better... this makes it insert the `/' as
usual. Unfortunately I can't think of a good way to make it add a `/'
for directories and a `:' for other files.

But at least this also makes the colon remove the slash.

Bye
 Sven

Index: Completion/Base/_value
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/Completion/Base/_value,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -r1.2 _value
--- Completion/Base/_value	2000/04/17 08:22:44	1.2
+++ Completion/Base/_value	2000/04/18 12:23:09
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
        [[ "$PREFIX$SUFFIX" = *:* ]]; then
       compset -P '*:'
       compset -S ':*'
-      _default -qS: "$@"
+      _default -r '\-\n\t /:' "$@"
     else
       _default "$@"
     fi
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
   elif compset -P '-R'; then
     compset -P '*:'
     compset -S ':*'
-    _files -/ -S/ -r ' :' "$@"
+    _files -/ -S/ -r '\n\t\- /:' "$@"
   else
     _default "$@"
   fi

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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de