Re: _path_files returning an error

["Mikael Magnusson" <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/02/2008, William Scott <wgscott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi folks:
>
> The _open completion function distributed with zsh for Darwin (mac os
> x) uses _path_files:
>
> i.e.,
>
> _open_absolute_application_path() {
>    local expl curcontext
>    zstyle -T ":completion:${curcontext}:files" prefix-needed && \
>      [[ "$PREFIX" != [/~]* && compstate[nmatches] -ne 0 ]] && return 1
>    _wanted files expl 'application file' _path_files -P "$PREFIX[1]" -
> W /
> }
>
>
> It returns this error, new to  4.3.5:
>
> zsh-% open -a TextMate <tab>
> _path_files:compfiles:357: too few arguments
>
> It then offers to complete with directories but not file names.
>
> Line 357 is this:
>
>       compfiles -p$cfopt tmp1 accex "$skipped" "$_matcher $matcher[2]"
> '' fake "$pats[@]"

I don't know how it happened or why, when I tried on linux it I got
% open -a error: "kern.argmax" is an unknown key
zargs: value for max-chars must be >= 1

but I can't reproduce it.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson