Re: Bug#497663: Tab completion for vim is broken

[Frank Terbeck <ft@bewatermyfriend.org>]

Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org>:
> On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 12:05:05PM +0300, Arto Jantunen wrote:
> > >> Typing vim and pressing tab produces the following output:
> > >> 
> > >> _vim:31: unmatched '
> > >> 
> > >> Commenting out lines 31-40 in
> > >> /usr/share/zsh/functions/Completion/Unix/_vim fixes the problem. Should
> > >> be trivial to fix properly for someone who understands zsh's compeltion
> > >> syntax (I don't).
> > >
> > > I can't reproduce this and I don't see what the problem might be.
> > > Is this consistent for you?
> > 
> > Hmm. Apparently it depends on "emulate csh" being used. I can't
> > reproduce with a .zshrc of only
> > 
> > autoload -U compinit
> > compinit
> > 
> > But can after adding emulate csh above those lines.
> 
> Anyone know which option might be the culprit here?

Yes, 'csh_junkie_quotes'.

The problem will vanish, if you unset that option after your 'emulate
csh' call.

However, I thought 'setopt no_csh_junkie_quotes' or 'emulate -L' at
the start of the file would be enough. But apparently it isn't...

Regards, Frank

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