Re: _path_files and glob qualifiers

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

Bart Schaefer wrote:

> zagzig[20] zstyle -L | grep completer
> zstyle ':completion:*' completer _oldlist _expand _complete _match _ignored _approximate _prefix
> 
> At first I thought the following was a problem with _expand:
> 
> zagzig[21] echo *zshenv(D)
> .zshenv zshenv
> zagzig[22] ls *zshenv(D)<TAB>
> zagzig[23] ls zshenv
> Completing corrections
> zshenv 
> Completing original
> *zshenv(D) 
> 
> Comparing an example that does work against the above via ^X?, I find that
> the real problem is that on line 305, _path_files tests [[ ! -o globdots ]]
> and therefore fails to generate dot-files as possible matches, even though
> the pattern includes the glob-dots qualifier.
> 
> A potential solution is to change [[ "$PREFIX" = .* ]] on lines 305 and 311
> to [[ "$PREFIX" = (.*|*\([^^]#D*\)) ]] or something like that, but I'm not
> entirely sure if that's correct (particularly when there is a suffix).  It
> might instead be necessary to test earlier and setopt localoptions globdots
> if the qualifier is spotted.

Hrm. Think of *(^.^D) and of *(^.,D) etc.

> But then there's the problem of generalizing to other qualifiers ...

Maybe when doing matching, we should copy all qualifiers from the line 
to the patterns used when generating matches (and remove the
qualifiers for matching purposes).

Bye
 Sven


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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de