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Re: Help w/compctl & ksh_glob

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From: Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Jerry A! <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Help w/compctl & ksh_glob
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 18:08:10 +0200
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In-reply-to: <20030816065935.GA31520@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Jerry A! wrote:
> I'm trying to setup some simple completions under zsh 4.0.6 using
> 'compctl' and 'emulate ksh'.  Nothing fancy, just matching programs to
> extensions.  For example:
> 
> compctl -/g '*.+(b{oo,ar,az}|quu|txt)' foo
> 
> This ends up not working, nothing gets expanded.  I've tried replacing

Your problem is with your attempted use of a brace expansion. Brace
expansions are a different thing from filename generation. They are
just expanded instead of matched against existing files. Try this
instead:

compctl -/g '*.+(b@(oo|ar|az)|quu|txt)' foo

Oliver

References:
- Help w/compctl & ksh_glob
  - From: Jerry A!

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