Re: Two Questions

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> Sorry for responding before actually testing, but after testing it
> proves to be insufficient.  It simply ignores the = on the command line
> now, restarting all completion instead of taking the = into account.
> Say I have a directory with the file
> 	=README
> in it (yes this is an Arch managed source tree) that I want to read with
> vim. I thus type
> 	% vim =<tab>
> which simply lists
> 	\=README
> under 'files'.

This seems to be a fully paid up bug...  I think it's simply that
this chunk in _main_complete isn't testing for the option before
trying to make `=' special.  (Leading `=' should now work regardless
of magicequalsubst --- it seems that's already smart enough to match
a non-leading `='.)

Index: Completion/Base/Core/_main_complete
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/Completion/Base/Core/_main_complete,v
retrieving revision 1.8
diff -u -r1.8 _main_complete
--- Completion/Base/Core/_main_complete	1 Aug 2003 16:29:21 -0000	1.8
+++ Completion/Base/Core/_main_complete	2 Mar 2004 11:24:04 -0000
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
 # Special completion contexts after `~' and `='.
 
 if [[ -z "$compstate[quote]" ]]; then
-  if compset -P 1 '='; then
+  if [[ -o equals ]] && compset -P 1 '='; then
     compstate[context]=equal
   elif [[ "$PREFIX" != */* && "$PREFIX[1]" = '~' ]]; then
     compset -p 1

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070


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