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Re: Turn off completion of users

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From: Ulrich Spoerlein <uspoerlein@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Turn off completion of users
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 19:06:56 +0200
Cc: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxx, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Peter Stephenson wrote:
> Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
> > There is a user 'proxy' on my system, when I now try to 'cd' into a
> > directory, let's call it 'profiles' the file/dir completion will offer
> > me 'proxy' as an alternative.
> 
> This is because of the option "cdablevars".  This makes it possible for
> "cd user" to behave the same as "cd ~user"; it works for user
> directories and named directories (i.e. where ~var behaves like $var)
> alike, since those deliberately have the same behaviour.  If you're not
> using that, you can "unsetopt cdablevars".

Splendid!

Thanks to you and Bart for pointing me to the right direction.

Bye,
Ulrich Spoerlein
-- 
A: Yes.
>Q: Are you sure?
> >A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
> >>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon?

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