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MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-Mailer: Open-Xchange Mailer X-Originating-IP: 147.161.224.167 X-Originating-Client: open-xchange-appsuite X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4xfBrLhSMSiDtLEZAx6PNHwxTwDXLreUp1Y1AfVYoip40BXfwnck/ONAz9qSaG7AXSCKusvX/F3Nt10Lc3wpSqCD9r6G0Q37wZI/rD+lfplWsM8iZAJIJc hItexAClHH6M5TvQN4lb2DFwd464bfLeTR4gOrvnKH7Z5uz07FNaxT1KzviSnapOJEB97G37uRxK7AZoww+NE97PQ3Mmqo1E+hmd8XqYiPNt4fhBY/SSj023 X-Seq: 51540 Archived-At: X-Loop: zsh-workers@zsh.org Errors-To: zsh-workers-owner@zsh.org Precedence: list Precedence: bulk Sender: zsh-workers-request@zsh.org X-no-archive: yes List-Id: List-Help: , List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: > On 08/03/2023 17:48 Bart Schaefer wrote: > On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 4:49=E2=80=AFAM Mikael Magnusson wrote: > > > > See the comment above addx() in zle_tricky.c and get_comp_string() (i > > don't actually recommend looking at this code). >=20 > I always wondered why Sven chose to use "x" instead of, say, something > out-of-band / non-printable. I guess with metafication etc. maybe > there wasn't any such thing. >=20 > Anyway, as I recall it, the point of the extra character is to help > completion distinguish the position of word breaks when completing > somewhere other than at end of line. That's a pretty obscure and undocumented effect at the point in question, though: compadd -U -i "$IPREFIX" -I "$ISUFFIX" - "${compstate[unambiguous]%$s= uf}x" compadd shouldn't be making this visible to shell code. This is something to do with inserting an unambiguous prefix; I haven't wor= ked out on what occasions this line would be hit. I would guess the _prefix completer isn't used all that widely? pws