From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: _expand doesn't do brace expansion?
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 12:58:15 +0200 (MET DST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200006151058.MAA06585@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Sven Wischnowsky's message of Thu, 15 Jun 2000 12:45:22 +0200 (MET DST)
I wrote:
> It simply gives up.
>
> With `a{b,c}<TAB>' the completion code would have to generate the
> matches for `ab' and `ac', then built the intersection to get the
> suffixes (and prefixes if there's a suffix, i.e. the middle-strings)
> which are in both sets (in all n sets, actually). And that mey be
> combined with arbitrarily complicated match specs. Frightening.
>
> Or have I missed something?
Errr, sorry. With `a{{c,d},' it could work, of course. But it still
gives up, hm.
About the other thing, a careful `eval exp=(...)' could do the job
(avoiding error messages and such).
Bye
Sven
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Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de
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2000-06-15 10:45 Sven Wischnowsky
2000-06-15 10:58 ` Sven Wischnowsky [this message]
2000-06-15 15:08 ` Bart Schaefer
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2000-06-15 9:20 Sven Wischnowsky
2000-06-15 10:22 ` Bart Schaefer
2000-06-15 9:09 Bart Schaefer
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