bug: DIR/*<tab> expansion doesn't work with directories with apostrophe in the name

bug: DIR/*<tab> expansion doesn't work with directories with apostrophe in the name

[Hrvoje Nikšić]

The zsh FAQ states that this is the address for reporting zsh bugs. As
a Ubuntu user I've reported this bug in launchpad, but I'm not
convinced that launchpad developers forward their bugs upstream, so
I'm Cc'ing it here. Please ignore if it has already been reported.


When the directory contains a single quote (apostrophe) in its name,
pressing the tab key to expand dir/* into a list of files no longer
works. What happens instead is that the tab key doesn't do anything
while cursor is inside the dir/* word.

This worked as expected in previous versions of zsh. In zsh 4.3.10
(specifically 4.3.10-14ubuntu1, Ubuntu maverick) it works only for
directories without apostrophes in the name. I discovered it while
trying to choose mp3s to queue in a music player, with the mp3s
residing in a directory with apostrophe in the name.

Here is a recipe to repeat the bug:

$ zsh -f
mulj% mkdir "a'b"
mulj% touch "a'b"/{1,2,3}
mulj% ls a\'b/* # press TAB with cursor immediately after the *, nothing happens
# pressing enter correctly executes the (expanded) command:
a'b/1 a'b/2 a'b/3
mulj% mv a\'b ab
mulj% ls ab/* # now pressing TAB with cursor immediately after the * correctly
                    # expands ab/* to ab/1 ab/2 ab/3
mulj% ls ab/1 ab/2 ab/3

Re: bug: DIR/*<tab> expansion doesn't work with directories with apostrophe in the name

[Bart Schaefer]

On Dec 29,  3:51pm, hniksic@gmail.com wrote:
} Subject: bug: DIR/*<tab> expansion doesn't work with directories with apos
}
} When the directory contains a single quote (apostrophe) in its name,
} pressing the tab key to expand dir/* into a list of files no longer
} works. What happens instead is that the tab key doesn't do anything
} while cursor is inside the dir/* word.

As you're seeing this with zsh -f, it's something in old compctl-based
completion.  With the newer function-based system, it behaves the same 
for me in 4.3.11-dev-1 as it does in 4.2.0 (both of which differ from
the way it [doesn't] work with zsh -f).

I can confirm that 4.3.11-dev-1 run with -f behaves the way you describe
4.3.10-14ubuntu1 as working, but 4.2.0 *also* behaves for me the way you
describe 4.3.10-14ubuntu1 as working, so I'm not sure which version you
had that worked differently.

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Re: bug: DIR/*<tab> expansion doesn't work with directories with apostrophe in the name

[Hrvoje Nikšić]

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 3:07 AM, Bart Schaefer
<schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
> I can confirm that 4.3.11-dev-1 run with -f behaves the way you describe
> 4.3.10-14ubuntu1 as working, but 4.2.0 *also* behaves for me the way you
> describe 4.3.10-14ubuntu1 as working, so I'm not sure which version you
> had that worked differently.

I might be misremembering about the previously working version(s). I
no longer have older installs to check.