From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: Problem completing variables that contain spaces
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 12:49:22 +0200 (MET DST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200103281049.MAA10490@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Wayne Davison's message of Wed, 28 Mar 2001 02:35:10 -0800 (PST)
Wayne Davison wrote:
> I noticed that the new completion code in the latest zsh code is
> having trouble completing a variable that expands to a value that
> contains spaces. For instance, I was trying to complete $PWD in
> a directory path that contained a space:
>
> % mkdir 'two words'
> % chdir 'two words'
> % touch 1 2
> % ls -l $PWD/<TAB>
>
> Instead of $PWD remaining unexpanded and starting menu completion, it
> expands to something strange like:
>
> $PWD/full/path/goes/here/two\ words/
>
> This problem is not specific to PWD.
I can't reproduce this. Can you try to make it do that starting with
-f and tell us the setup?
Bye
Sven
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Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de
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