From: "Mikael Magnusson" <mikachu@gmail.com>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: Making built-in completion recognize : as word boundary
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:23:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <237967ef0802291323o1bb68417v358deb406700c7da@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080229221711.7729241b@buddha>
On 29/02/2008, Matthias B. <msbREMOVE-THIS@winterdrache.de> wrote:
> Something that's been bothering me for years now with zsh is that the
> built-in completion can't complete
>
> PATH=/usr/bin:/sb<TAB>
>
> presumably because it doesn't consider the colon a word boundary. Could
> someone please point me at the code responsible so that I can fix this.
>
> MSB
>
> p.s.: I know that the function-based completion system doesn't have this
> problem, but I don't want to use it.
path=(/usr/bin /sb<tab>
should work fine i think.
You can also make more of these automagic paired variables with some
argument to typeset.
typeset -T MYVAR myvar
myvar=(do re mi)
echo $MYVAR
do:re:mi
I know that doesn't answer your actual question, but maybe it's useful
as a workaround.
--
Mikael Magnusson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-29 21:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-29 21:17 Matthias B.
2008-02-29 21:23 ` Mikael Magnusson [this message]
2008-02-29 21:40 ` Matthias B.
2008-03-01 0:37 ` Oliver Kiddle
2008-03-01 6:06 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2008-03-01 13:17 ` Matthias B.
2008-03-01 19:08 ` Bart Schaefer
2008-03-08 14:21 ` Matthias B.
2008-03-01 19:28 ` Clint Adams
2008-03-02 11:31 ` Oliver Kiddle
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