Re: completion

Re: completion

[Ray Andrews]

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On 01/07/2015 07:01 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2014-12-11 11:34:20 -0800, Ray Andrews wrote:
>> Anyway, knowing that the star replaces the colons cracks it open.
> This is a bit old, but... When can an asterisk replace a colon?
> For instance, in:
> ...
> which have one or several missing colons. This is from the
> zshcompsys(1) man page.
>
> If an asterisk can match anything, there may be an ambiguity on
> which field some given word will match.
>
I'm glad I'm not the only guy who is puzzled by that.  I dunno
completion sorta works, and some people seem to understand
it, so I can't say much, but IMHO having a optional field
separator is madness.

first-name : last-name : job : fav. hockey team : city : vacation spot

Ray :*: Carpenter : Montreal
Ray : Andrews :*: Vancouver :*: Maui
:*: Andrews :*: Maui

... a bit hard to parse, but all 'true' if separators can be omitted.

Being just a mortal, this seems more tractable  to me:

:Ray::Carpenter:Montreal::Maui:
     I'm Ray, and Montreal is my hockey team

::Andrews:::Vancouver:Maui:
     I live in Vancouver

::Andrews:::::
     My last name is Andrews

:::Carpenter:::Maui:
     I'm a carpenter who vacations in Maui

:Montreal::
     Error! Not enough colons, there must be seven.

completion

[Ray Andrews]

Previous command recall issue now fixed:

    $ echo $(ls zsh)
    zsh-5.0.7-234-gaa503b5
    zsh

    $ echo $(ls zsh)
    zsh-5.0.7-234-gaa503b5
    zsh


However completion is still busted:

     $ ln -svf zsh-5.0.7-175   <TAB>

     $ ln -svf zsh-5.0.7-175-./Src/zsh: symbol lookup error: 
/usr/local/lib/zsh/5.0.7-dev-0/zsh/zle.so: undefined symbol: lexsave

... that was trying to complete this:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 1220492 2015-01-06-11:27:02 zsh-5.0.7-175-g7e74495

...  is there some missed change in zle.so perhaps?  I'm never sure 
what, besides the kernel, is ever supposed to change.


    $ l zle.so
    zsh-5.0.7-175-g7e74495

    Sorting All file types Backwards by Modification Time (zle.so):

    -rwxr-xr-x 1 273104 2014-11-27-16:54:23 zle.so* << latest?