Re: Bug#514152: zsh: completion no longer works for ..

Re: Bug#514152: zsh: completion no longer works for ..

[Clint Adams]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 03:55:09PM -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> Completion no longer adds a / when I type ..<TAB>

In which context?

Re: Bug#514152: zsh: completion no longer works for ..

[Frank Terbeck]

Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org>:
> On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 03:55:09PM -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> > Completion no longer adds a / when I type ..<TAB>
> 
> In which context?

I bet, this is about this:
    http://www.zsh.org/mla/workers//2008/msg01732.html

Quite a few people asked about it on irc, too.

Regards, Frank

-- 
In protocol design, perfection has been reached not when there is
nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
                                                  -- RFC 1925

Re: Bug#514152: zsh: completion no longer works for ..

[Felipe Sateler]

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El 04/02/09 19:35 Clint Adams escribió:
> On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 03:55:09PM -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> > Completion no longer adds a / when I type ..<TAB>
>
> In which context?

I'm not sure what you mean. I see it happen with any command that takes a path 
as an argument (cd, git, vim, less, etc).

Saludos,
Felipe Sateler

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Re: Bug#514152: zsh: completion no longer works for ..

[Felipe Sateler]

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El 04/02/09 19:42 Frank Terbeck escribió:
> Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org>:
> > On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 03:55:09PM -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> > > Completion no longer adds a / when I type ..<TAB>
> >
> > In which context?
>
> I bet, this is about this:
>     http://www.zsh.org/mla/workers//2008/msg01732.html
>
> Quite a few people asked about it on irc, too.

Indeed, this fixes the issue.

Saludos,
Felipe Sateler

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Re: Bug#514152: zsh: completion no longer works for ..

[Peter Stephenson]

On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 23:42:44 +0100
Frank Terbeck <ft@bewatermyfriend.org> wrote:
> Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org>:
> > On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 03:55:09PM -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> > > Completion no longer adds a / when I type ..<TAB>
> > 
> > In which context?
> 
> I bet, this is about this:
>     http://www.zsh.org/mla/workers//2008/msg01732.html
> 
> Quite a few people asked about it on irc, too.

It's probably worth noting in the next release that the temporary behaviour
was a bug.

Index: README
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/README,v
retrieving revision 1.61
diff -u -r1.61 README
--- README	17 Nov 2008 16:11:29 -0000	1.61
+++ README	5 Feb 2009 09:44:41 -0000
@@ -33,8 +33,16 @@
 Possible incompatibilities
 ---------------------------
 
-This section documents incompatibilities in the shell since the 4.2
-series of releases.
+In some 4.2.X releases of zsh, the completion system added a ".."  as a
+trial completion whenever completing directories.  This was a bug: as
+documented in the zshcompsys manual, this feature needs to be turned on by
+a style:
+
+  zstyle ':completion:*' special-dirs true
+
+
+The rest of this section documents incompatibilities in the shell since the
+4.2 series of releases.
 
 In previous releases of the shell, builtin commands and precommand
 modifiers that did not accept options also did not recognize the

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>                  Software Engineer
CSR PLC, Churchill House, Cambridge Business Park, Cowley Road
Cambridge, CB4 0WZ, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070

Re: Bug#514152: zsh: completion no longer works for ..

[Peter Stephenson]

On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 09:45:46 +0000
Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> wrote:
> +In some 4.2.X releases of zsh, the completion system added a ".."  as a

Should be 4.3.X: fixed.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>                  Software Engineer
CSR PLC, Churchill House, Cambridge Business Park, Cowley Road
Cambridge, CB4 0WZ, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070

Re: Bug#514152: zsh: completion no longer works for ..

[Richard Hartmann]

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 10:45, Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> wrote:

>  In previous releases of the shell, builtin commands and precommand
>  modifiers that did not accept options also did not recognize the

the?


Richard

Re: Bug#514152: zsh: completion no longer works for ..

[Peter Stephenson]

Richard Hartmann wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 10:45, Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> wrote:
> 
> >  In previous releases of the shell, builtin commands and precommand
> >  modifiers that did not accept options also did not recognize the
> 
> the?

You've just read down to line 48 of the README.

Now continue reading at line 49.

This is a standard feature of writing in Western languages :-).

To put it another, reading documentation only through patches to parts of
it isn't particuarly effective.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>                  Software Engineer
CSR PLC, Churchill House, Cambridge Business Park, Cowley Road
Cambridge, CB4 0WZ, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070

Re: Bug#514152: zsh: completion no longer works for ..

[Peter Stephenson]

Peter Stephenson wrote:
> To put it another, reading documentation only through patches to parts of
                  \ way
> it isn't particuarly effective.

pws

Re: Bug#514152: zsh: completion no longer works for ..

[Frank Terbeck]

Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com>:
> Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>:
> >  In previous releases of the shell, builtin commands and precommand
> >  modifiers that did not accept options also did not recognize the
> 
> the?

Well, it's a diff. And 'recognize the' is where the context ends.

If you're interested in the rest, take a look at the real README. :-)

Regards, Frank

-- 
In protocol design, perfection has been reached not when there is
nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
                                                  -- RFC 1925

Re: Bug#514152: zsh: completion no longer works for ..

[Richard Hartmann]

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 17:56, Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> wrote:

> You've just read down to line 48 of the README.
>
> Now continue reading at line 49.
>
> This is a standard feature of writing in Western languages :-).
>
> To put it another, reading documentation only through patches to parts of
> it isn't particuarly effective.

Well-deserved sarcasm due to me failing to detect a patch context line.

I blame the drugs after my ankle operation :p


Richard