Re: dir/*<tab> expansion doesn't work with directories with apostrophe in the name

[Axel Beckert <abe@deuxchevaux.org>]

Hi Bart,

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 06:20:29PM -0800, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Jan 18,  1:53am, Axel Beckert wrote:
> } When the directory contains a single quote (apostrophe) in its name,
> } pressing the tab key to expand dir/* into a list of files no longer
> } works. What happens instead is that the tab key doesn't do anything
> } while cursor is inside the dir/* word.
> 
> This is the behavior for me as far back as zsh-4.2.0 when starting from
> zsh -f.  It's probably related to changing expand-word to use the same
> internal routines as completion, which happened somewhere during 4.1.x
> development.
> 
> Some discussion of this can be found in the threads leading up to
> users/18243 and subsequently workers/32186 ...
> 
> The _expand completer and _expand_word widget via compinit appear to
> handle these quote marks correctly, as of 5.0.5.

Not sure if I got it right, but I think I can also reproduce it with
compinit:

/tmp/zsh-test → zsh -f
kiva6% autoload -Uz compinit
kiva6% compinit
kiva6% ls -l
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 abe abe 4096 Jan 18 01:44 a'b
drwxr-xr-x 2 abe abe 4096 Jan 18 01:44 dc
kiva6% ls -l "a'b"
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 abe abe 0 Jan 18 01:44 1
-rw-r--r-- 1 abe abe 0 Jan 18 01:44 2
-rw-r--r-- 1 abe abe 0 Jan 18 01:44 3
kiva6% ls -l dc
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 abe abe 0 Jan 18 01:44 1
-rw-r--r-- 1 abe abe 0 Jan 18 01:44 2
-rw-r--r-- 1 abe abe 0 Jan 18 01:44 3
kiva6% ls a\'b/*<Tab>
(Does not work, rings the bell.)
kiva6% ls dc/*<Tab>
(Does work, expands to the following.)
kiva6% ls dc/1 dc/2 dc/3 

		Kind regards, Axel
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