Re: zsh crashes on completeion of utf-8 file-names.

[Wayne Davison <wayned@users.sourceforge.net>]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 04:07:54PM +0000, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> (By the way, every time I send a message saying I think setting lastval
> = 0 in bin_eval is the correct fix for the eval "" bug, it disappears.
> So let's see if tacking it on here confuses the system sufficiently.)

Looks like you managed to fool it that time!  I checked this in.

> +	     l < len && l < md->len && p[ind] == q[ind]
> +		 && (p[ind] != Meta || p[ind+1] == q[ind+1]);
>  	     l++, p += add, q += add);

I think it would be more optimal to sanity-check the last value after
the loop finishes, like this (untested):

--- Src/Zle/compmatch.c	8 Aug 2001 07:41:01 -0000	1.37
+++ Src/Zle/compmatch.c	5 Jan 2004 17:03:07 -0000
@@ -1589,7 +1589,9 @@
 	     l++, p += add, q += add);
 
 	if (l) {
-	    /* There was a common prefix, use it. */
+	    /* There was a common prefix, use it, but don't end on meta. */
+	    if (p[ind-add] == Meta)
+		l--;
 	    md->len -= l; len -= l;
 	    if (sfx) {
 		md->str -= l; str -= l;

..wayne..