From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16640 invoked from network); 5 Mar 1999 09:09:13 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 5 Mar 1999 09:09:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 959 invoked by alias); 5 Mar 1999 09:08:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 5648 Received: (qmail 951 invoked from network); 5 Mar 1999 09:08:43 -0000 Message-Id: <9903050852.AA19585@ibmth.df.unipi.it> To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: Re: PATCH: 3.1.5-pws-10: _tar In-Reply-To: "Sven Wischnowsky"'s message of "Fri, 05 Mar 1999 09:18:58 NFT." <199903050818.JAA03410@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 09:52:52 +0100 From: Peter Stephenson Sven Wischnowsky wrote: > It was too eager to replace `*s' with `[^/]#'s. The patch below does > the replacement only for the non-last components. Working a lot better now, thanks. It's maybe a little bit eager to stick in later path components: if I type zsh-3.1.5-pws-10/Sr it completes (with menucompletion) all the way to Src/.cvisignore instead of hanging around at the next slash. I suppose normally with ordinary completion it'll stop after the slash because the rest is ambiguous, but that won't always be the case. By the way, I think you can turn things like eval patstr\="\$patstr:gs-${sep}-\*${sep}-:gs/\*\*/\*/" into patstr="${${patstr//$sep/*$sep}//\*##/*}" which not only avoids the eval, it avoids difficulties with the delimiters since the $sep is only substituted after the /'s are parsed, plus the characters in $sep are automatically quoted by the usual noglobsubst rule. But you have to be careful quoting metacharacters in the `before' text. You can also now use ## to turn multiple stars into a single one with extendedglob. Neither form will turn *** into a single *, since the replacement text is never used for further matching. I don't know if that's a bug, but probably not. -- Peter Stephenson Tel: +39 050 844536 WWW: http://www.ifh.de/~pws/ Dipartimento di Fisica, Via Buonarroti 2, 56127 Pisa, Italy