Re: Bug#236350: zsh: _prefix completer broken?

[Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>]

Oliver Kiddle wrote:
> > zstyle ':completion:*' completer \
> >   _oldlist _expand _complete _match _ignored _approximate _prefix
> > 
> > However, 4.2.0-pre-3 never gets beyond trying _approximate.  The output
> 
> This is the bug I reported in 17846.
> 
> For now, I moved _prefix before _approximate.

I haven't looked at the cause again, but in my reply dated 28th October
2002 I said `Perhaps there's an obvious answer but I can't see it at
the moment'.

So if you want this to work, it looks like you will need to change the
completion code.

Year-long delays of this kind are inevitable when there are so few of us
working on the internals.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>                  Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070


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