PATCH: Re: Problem completing variables that contain spaces

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

Wayne Davison wrote:

> ...
> 
> The critical bit appears to be:
> 
> zstyle ':completion:*' completer _expand _complete
> zstyle ':completion:*:expand:*' suffix false

Ah, yes, now it could reproduce it.  There was a missing (q) flag when 
comparing the prefix of the expansion generated so far with the
expansion of the prefix alone.

> [...] However, with this set:
> 
> zstyle ':completion:*:expand:*' keep-prefix true
> 
> the behavior of "suffix false" works exactly like "suffix true". [...]

But that's correct, isn't it?  Judging from the documentation (and the 
code and from what I intended... ;-).

Bye
 Sven

Index: Completion/Core/_expand
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/Completion/Core/_expand,v
retrieving revision 1.35
diff -u -r1.35 _expand
--- Completion/Core/_expand	2001/03/11 19:30:42	1.35
+++ Completion/Core/_expand	2001/03/29 08:58:19
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@
   eval 'epre=( ${(e)~${word%%/*}} )' 2>/dev/null
   if [[ -n "$epre" && $#epre -eq 1 ]]; then
     opre="${word%%/*}"
-    pre="$epre[1]"
+    pre="${(q)epre[1]}"
     [[ "$tmp" != changed || $#exp -gt 1 ||
        "${opre}${exp[1]#${pre}}" != "$word" ]] && exp=( ${opre}${^exp#${pre}} )
   fi

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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de