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From: Sav Erio <saverio.pub2@gmail.com>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Perplexing `COMP_POINT` value on bashcompinit tab completion (plaintext)
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2018 10:05:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKtPU9hPtLXdT_5J9EKf329FnPJ=wL4VsTWMEh6Lj9h8QBkgRw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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Hello!

I use the OMZ/`bashcompinit` combination in order to write my tab
completion scripts.

The tab completion itself works, however, I'm writing more complex
scripts, and I find the `COMP_POINT` value perplexing, since it
doesn't match the intuitive value (the position of the cursor in the
string, which is what Bash returns).

Let's suppose you have a script named `/home/oooh_my_tab/scr`, whose
autocompletion is defined via `complete -C
"/path/to/myscript_completion" -o default scr`.

When typing:

```sh
$ scr <tab>
```

Bash sends to the completion script the env vars `COMP_LINE=scr ` and
`COMP_POINT=4`. The number `4` is, intuitively, the position of the
cursor (and the size of the `COMP_LINE` string).

Zsh sends `COMP_LINE=/home/oooh_my_tab/scr `, which is different while
correct nonetheless, but sends `COMP_POINT=23`, which is perplexing,
since the position of the cursor is `22`.

When typing:

```sh
$ scr a<tab>
```

Bash sends `COMP_LINE=scr a` and `COMP_POINT=5`, which, again, has
intuitive values.

Zsh sends `COMP_LINE=/home/oooh_my_tab/scr a`, and the now more
perplexing `COMP_POINT=25`, which adds an unexpected extra unit to
what was, in the previous example, an already apparently off-by-one
value.

Is this a bug? Am I missing something? With such behavior,
`COMP_POINT` breaks compatibility with Bash tab completion scripts.

Thanks,
Saverio


             reply	other threads:[~2018-07-22  8:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-22  8:05 Sav Erio [this message]
2018-07-23 15:39 ` Bart Schaefer

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