PATCH: Re: Correction of files after ~/

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

Peter Stephenson wrote:

> ...
> 
> Here's edited highlights --- I don't have time to look at this at the
> moment.  I'm trying to complete ~/src/zsh/Completion/Usr which should turn
> the last part into User.  This is the part of the plot from where it
> correctly tries the path with one approximation up to where it gives up and
> tries it with two approximations.  It works fine if I replace ~ with
> /home/pws.
> 
> Same behaviour with zsh -f with the single style
>   zstyle ':completion:*' completer _oldlist _expand _complete _approximate
> which is what I normally use.

Indeed.  There certainly once was a reason for that special casing in
_approximate's compadd().  But it seems to work now.  I don't remember 
why I did that -- and the C-code has changed since then.  Let's try.

Bye
 Sven

Index: Completion/Core/_approximate
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/Completion/Core/_approximate,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -r1.5 _approximate
--- Completion/Core/_approximate	2000/05/19 08:26:47	1.5
+++ Completion/Core/_approximate	2001/03/23 13:57:01
@@ -53,11 +53,12 @@
     [[ ${argv[(I)-[a-zA-Z]#U[a-zA-Z]#]} -eq 0 &&
        "${#:-$PREFIX$SUFFIX}" -le _comp_correct ]] && return
 
-    if [[ "$PREFIX" = \~*/* ]]; then
-      PREFIX="${PREFIX%%/*}/(#a${_comp_correct})${PREFIX#*/}"
-    else
+    ### This distinction doesn't seem to be needed anymore
+    # if [[ "$PREFIX" = \~*/* ]]; then
+    #   PREFIX="${PREFIX%%/*}/(#a${_comp_correct})${PREFIX#*/}"
+    # else
       PREFIX="(#a${_comp_correct})$PREFIX"
-    fi
+    # fi
     builtin compadd "$_correct_expl[@]" "$@"
   }
 fi

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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de