Hi - <div><br></div><div>It looks like zsh&#39;s  &quot;compgen -W&quot; (words) does not match the same behavior as bash&#39;s.  For example</div><div>in bash:</div><div><br></div><div><div>$ compgen -W &#39;abc abe ab a def&#39; ab</div>
<div>compgen -W &#39;abc abe ab a def&#39; ab</div><div>abc</div><div>abe</div><div>ab</div></div><div>$</div><div><br></div><div>versus zsh 4.3.10 (and git sources):</div><div><br></div><div><div>$ autoload -Uz bashcompinit</div>
<div>$ bashcompinit</div><div>$ zmodload -ap zsh/parameter parameters</div><div>$ compgen -W &#39;abc abe ab a def&#39; ab</div><div>abc</div><div>abe</div><div>ab</div><div>a</div><div>def</div></div><div>$</div><div><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>Attached is a patch from git sources as of May 3rd, 2011 with a new test that I believe corrects this behavior.  </div><div>Since I do not consider myself a zsh language expert, the changes in Completion/bashcompinit might be shorted or </div>
<div>made more zsh idomatic. </div><div><br></div><div>For example simplicity, to match the beginning of a word, I used  </div><div>    [[ $try =~ &quot;^$find&quot; ]] </div><div>matching using == and substrings might be faster, not that I think speed is all that important here. Ditt ofo inlining a newly added _compgen_opt_words</div>
<div>function; but I think that makes things uglier and harder to test. </div>