Re: /foo/b<tab> accessing paths other than /foo/*

["Benjamin R. Haskell" <zsh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 28 Dec 2008, Hannu Koivisto wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I have a spindown timeout for hard disks that are mounted to 
> /storage{,2,3,4,5}.  Now, when I say, for example, /storage5/src/k<tab>, 
> the completion system apparently accesses all those other storage* 
> directories because the disks spin up.
>
>
> Is it possible to configure the system so that it doesn't do that? If I 
> loose some /storage5/src/k<tab> => oops, it was actually under storage4 
> => /storage4/src/kernel correction feature, that's ok.


Bart Schaefer explained why it does this (basically the "correction 
feature" you conjectured), and gave a workaround at:

http://www.zsh.org/mla/users/2008/msg00472.html


Peter Stephenson provided a patch that's probably a better workaround:

http://www.zsh.org/mla/users/2008/msg00475.html

I think the patch should apply cleanly against Zsh 4.3.4 -- I'm pretty
sure that's what was in Cygwin at that time, and it solved my problem.
It's also been applied in CVS, and was there pre-4.3.9.

Best,
Ben