Re: Completion for backslashed commands

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> If I type:
> 
>   \gv file[TAB]
> 
> I get the conventional filename completion instead of the completion
> specific to gv. Is it a bug or is there a way to make this work?

Well, this would fix it.  But (i) I have no idea if it's intentional (it
seems unlikely in this case) (ii) I bet there other places needing the
same treatment for consistency.

Index: Completion/Base/Core/_dispatch
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/Completion/Base/Core/_dispatch,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -r1.3 _dispatch
--- Completion/Base/Core/_dispatch	17 Mar 2002 18:03:09 -0000	1.3
+++ Completion/Base/Core/_dispatch	24 May 2004 11:34:18 -0000
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
 ret=1
 for str in "$@"; do
   [[ -n "$str" ]] || continue
+  str=${(Q)str}
   name="$str"
   comp="${_comps[$str]}"
   service="${_services[$str]:-$str}"

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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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