complete-or-expand-prefix

complete-or-expand-prefix

[Anthony Iano-Fletcher]

Hi All,

One of the zle functions 'complete-or-expand-prefix' no longer
works. I added this a while back and used it. After a couple
of job changes I lost it from my zshrc file. So the short story
is that I dont know when it broke but it is (at least for me -
Solaris 2.4 on a Sparc).

The good news is that the option COMPLETE_IN_WORD causes completion
to do what 'complete-or-expand-prefix' was meant to do, i.e. complete
words up to the cursor rather than to the end of the word.

There are 2 options:
	1. I can fix 'complete-or-expand-prefix' (I have a patch) or
	2. delete 'complete-or-expand-prefix' completely.

Im happy with either - do we want backward compatibilty?

			Anthony.

Re: complete-or-expand-prefix

[Bart Schaefer]

On May 30,  9:00am, Anthony Iano-Fletcher wrote:
} Subject: complete-or-expand-prefix
}
} One of the zle functions 'complete-or-expand-prefix' no longer
} works.

I've never heard of that one ... are you sure "expand-or-complete-prefix"
isn't what you're thinking of?  

} I added this a while back and used it. After a couple
} of job changes I lost it from my zshrc file. So the short story
} is that I dont know when it broke but it is (at least for me -
} Solaris 2.4 on a Sparc).

Can you describe how the behavior changed from before it broke to now?

Is it broken in the same ways in 3.0.3-test5 and the latest 3.1?

The behavior of expand-or-complete-prefix may have been changed when
COMPLETE_IN_WORD was added, or thereabouts ... but I don't recall whether
any such change was intentional.

} There are 2 options:
} 	1. I can fix 'complete-or-expand-prefix' (I have a patch) or
} 	2. delete 'complete-or-expand-prefix' completely.
} 
} I'm happy with either - do we want backward compatibilty?

The problem may be that we now have two different definitions of backward
compatibility -- all the way back to the original you added, or back to
the intermediate versions since COMPLETE_IN_WORD.  I'd like to hear more
details before trying to figure out which is what.

-- 
Bart Schaefer                                 Brass Lantern Enterprises
http://www.well.com/user/barts        http://www.nbn.com/people/lantern