From: <thomas@coldfix.de>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Path with spaces in _canonical_paths
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2022 17:41:37 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <sympa.1668791373.628329.85325.773@zsh.org> (raw)
Hi all,
I'm trying to use `_canonical_paths` (on zsh 5.9) to let the user autocomplete
a fixed list of files. I hope I'm not using it incorrectly. Otherwise: It
seems to not escape spaces in paths appropriately. Short example:
compdef '_canonical_paths -N files files /tmp/My\ File' cmd
cmd <Tab>
Shows the following completions:
/tmp/My File (appears twice)
/tmp/My\ File
i.e. I get in total 3 entries for the same path, and notably, the first option
is without escaping the space, i.e. it will result in a command line:
cmd /tmp/My File
which is obviously not as intended.
I tried scanning the code in /usr/share/zsh/functions/Completion/Unix/
_canonical_paths for the problem, but it is quite confusing to me. I was able
to gather that by removing the `-Q` from the line
_wanted "$tag" expl "$desc" compadd $__gopts -Q -U -a matches && ret=0
it adds escapes to all the entries, i.e. the new completions are:
/tmp/My\ File (twice)
/tmp/My\\\ File
which is still not as desired.
Much appreciated if anyone can help.
Best, Thomas
next reply other threads:[~2022-11-18 17:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-18 17:41 thomas [this message]
2022-11-21 3:57 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-11-21 10:47 ` thomas
2022-11-21 16:30 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-11-21 17:41 ` Thomas Gläßle
2022-11-21 21:32 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-11-23 14:13 ` Daniel Shahaf
2022-11-23 21:36 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-11-23 22:24 ` Daniel Shahaf
2022-11-23 22:42 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-11-23 23:06 ` Daniel Shahaf
2022-11-23 23:12 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-11-24 0:12 ` Daniel Shahaf
2022-11-24 18:42 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-11-23 23:36 ` Thomas Gläßle
2022-11-23 23:40 ` Thomas Gläßle
2022-11-24 18:51 ` Bart Schaefer
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