Re: Problem completing variables that contain spaces

Re: Problem completing variables that contain spaces

[Sven Wischnowsky]

Wayne Davison wrote:

> I noticed that the new completion code in the latest zsh code is
> having trouble completing a variable that expands to a value that
> contains spaces.  For instance, I was trying to complete $PWD in
> a directory path that contained a space:
> 
>  % mkdir 'two words'
>  % chdir 'two words'
>  % touch 1 2
>  % ls -l $PWD/<TAB>
> 
> Instead of $PWD remaining unexpanded and starting menu completion, it
> expands to something strange like:
> 
>     $PWD/full/path/goes/here/two\ words/
> 
> This problem is not specific to PWD.

I can't reproduce this.  Can you try to make it do that starting with
-f and tell us the setup?

Bye
 Sven


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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de

Re: Problem completing variables that contain spaces

[Wayne Davison]

On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Sven Wischnowsky wrote:
> Wayne Davison wrote:
> > I noticed that the new completion code in the latest zsh code is
> > having trouble completing a variable that expands to a value that
> > contains spaces.  For instance, I was trying to complete $PWD in
> > a directory path that contained a space:
> >
> >  % mkdir 'two words'
> >  % chdir 'two words'
> >  % touch 1 2
> >  % ls -l $PWD/<TAB>
> >
> > Instead of $PWD remaining unexpanded and starting menu completion, it
> > expands to something strange like:
> >
> >     $PWD/full/path/goes/here/two\ words/
>
> I can't reproduce this.  Can you try to make it do that starting with
> -f and tell us the setup?

The critical bit appears to be:

zstyle ':completion:*' completer _expand _complete
zstyle ':completion:*:expand:*' suffix false

(Of course you need to call compinit and bindkey TAB to complete-word.)

I can't remember why I set suffix to false, though.  It was probably
back during the time that I didn't want $VAR/*<TAB> to expand the $VAR
(or something like that).  However, with this set:

zstyle ':completion:*:expand:*' keep-prefix true

the behavior of "suffix false" works exactly like "suffix true".
Note that the keep-prefix line isn't required to duplicate the bug.
In fact, you can tickle the bug without setting "suffix false" if you
add a wildcard:

 % ls -l $PWD/*<TAB>

..wayne..

Problem completing variables that contain spaces

[Wayne Davison]

I noticed that the new completion code in the latest zsh code is
having trouble completing a variable that expands to a value that
contains spaces.  For instance, I was trying to complete $PWD in
a directory path that contained a space:

 % mkdir 'two words'
 % chdir 'two words'
 % touch 1 2
 % ls -l $PWD/<TAB>

Instead of $PWD remaining unexpanded and starting menu completion, it
expands to something strange like:

    $PWD/full/path/goes/here/two\ words/

This problem is not specific to PWD.

..wayne..