Re: Remaining zsh3.0-pre2 bugs

["Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com>]

On Jul 9,  4:06pm, Zoltan Hidvegi wrote:
} Subject: Re: Remaining zsh3.0-pre2 bugs
}
} > } In that case zsh simply gives up the completion
} > } attempt, restores the original line and returns.
} > 
} > Why is that necessary?  Maybe it's necessary if the word *ends* in the
} > previous line for some reason, but ...
} 
} The problem is that that:
} 
} % echo 'z'\
} > l<TAB>
} 
} Here get_comp_string removes the quotes around 'z' but it does not work
} since the already entered part cannot be modified.  The quotes have to be
} removed for completing filenames.  This later causes a SEGV.

Well, then, why not catch that special case (backslash-newline) and let
other cases of embedded newlines keep working?  Patch below.

} > Hmm.  Your patch does a couple of things.  One, it removes the loop that
} > folds embedded newlines into semicolons; two, it attempts to save and
} 
} Yes, it seems that it is not necessary.  That mainly caused problems after
} a backslash <newline>.  Perhaps that's the bug mentioned in Etc/BUGS.

Could very well be that bug.  With your patches plus mine below, completion
doesn't work at all for words that cross a backslash-newline (which seems
to me to be the correct behavior), but works for words later on the line
and words that contain quoted newlines.

There's one other bug that this patch does NOT address; and maybe it's not
a bug at all.  However, here's the example:

zagzig<6> touch cegi efgh
zagzig<7> echo c'e<TAB>
zagzig<7> echo c'efgh

If I do it with TWO quotes (I don't have rcquotes set):

zagzig<8> echo c''e<TAB>
zagzig<8> echo cegi

zagzig<9> echo c'e'<TAB>
zagzig<9> echo cegi

And yet:

zagzig<10> echo c'e'<C-b><TAB>		<-- Complete inside second quote
zagzig<10> echo c'efg '			<-- Cursor ends on second quote

Seems to me that case <7> should just feep at me; I'm not sure whether
I think <10> should feep or work like <9>, or whether completeinword
should make a difference, but what it did seems wrong.

Here's the patch for backslash-newline.  It includes (rather than
follows onto) my previous patch for quoted newlines.

*** Src/zle_tricky.c.0	Tue Jul  9 00:50:55 1996
--- Src/zle_tricky.c	Wed Jul 10 12:02:51 1996
***************
*** 497,503 ****
  docomplete(int lst)
  {
      char *s, *ol;
!     int olst = lst, chl = 0, ne = noerrs, ocs = 0;
  
      /* If we are doing a menu-completion... */
  
--- 497,503 ----
  docomplete(int lst)
  {
      char *s, *ol;
!     int olst = lst, chl = 0, ne = noerrs, ocs = 0, oll = 0;
  
      /* If we are doing a menu-completion... */
  
***************
*** 554,559 ****
--- 554,560 ----
  	/* Append the original line contents. */
  	strcpy(q, ol);
  	cs += chl;
+ 	oll = ll;
  	ll = strlen((char *)line);
      }
      else
***************
*** 573,592 ****
  	viinsbegin = ztrsub((char *) line + wb, (char *) line);
      /* If we added chline to the line buffer, reset the original contents. */
      if (ol) {
! 	cs -= chl;
  	wb -= chl;
  	we -= chl;
! 	if (wb < 0 || we < 0 || cs < 0) {
  	    strcpy((char *) line, ol);
! 	    ll = strlen((char *) line);
  	    cs = ocs;
  	    unmetafy_line();
  	    return;
  	}
- 	ocs = cs;
  	cs = 0;
  	foredel(chl);
! 	cs = ocs;
      }
      freeheap();
      /* Save the lexer state, in case the completion code uses the lexer *
--- 574,594 ----
  	viinsbegin = ztrsub((char *) line + wb, (char *) line);
      /* If we added chline to the line buffer, reset the original contents. */
      if (ol) {
! 	int tcs = (cs -= chl);
  	wb -= chl;
  	we -= chl;
! 	/* If completion has to back up across a backslash-newline pair, *
! 	 * the necessary rewrites are impossible.  Give up and bail out. */
! 	if (wb < (oll - ll) || we < (oll - ll) || cs < (oll - ll)) {
  	    strcpy((char *) line, ol);
! 	    ll = oll;
  	    cs = ocs;
  	    unmetafy_line();
  	    return;
  	}
  	cs = 0;
  	foredel(chl);
! 	cs = tcs;
      }
      freeheap();
      /* Save the lexer state, in case the completion code uses the lexer *
***************
*** 741,746 ****
--- 743,753 ----
  	    docompletion(s, lst, lincmd);
  	zsfree(s);
      }
+     if (ol && !nmatches && (wb < 0 || we < 0 || cs < 0)) {
+ 	strcpy((char *) line, ol);
+ 	ll = oll;
+ 	cs = ocs;
+     }
      /* Reset the lexer state, pop the heap. */
      lexrestore();
      popheap();

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