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Re: Turn off completion of users



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
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