Re: How to add a 'non-escaped' tilde to the completion list

[Death Jester <d3ath.jest3r@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi.
ok. I thought it works and the substitution now actually works as
intended, either with '-f' or '-Q'. But now I have another issue xD

When I hit my shortcut 'CTRL+v', the completion system adds a '~'
character to the command line instead of showing me the list of
available directories. When I hit 'CTRL+v' again, I get an other '~' and
the list. So now it looks like:

  cd ~~
  ~/foler1
  ~/folder2

and when I select a folder from the list, I have now '~~/folder2' on the
commandline. How do I get rid of the first tilde? The code now looks
like:

  function _term_list(){
    local -a w

    for SESSION in $(pidof  zsh); do
      PA=$(readlink -n /proc/${SESSION}/cwd)
      w+=(${(D)PA})
    done

    compadd -af w
  }

  zle -C term_list complete-word _generic
  bindkey "^v" term_list
  zstyle ':completion:term_list:*' completer _term_list

Thank you again.

Cheers,
Jester

On Mon, 2014-11-10 at 12:18 +0000, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 11:31:36 +0000
> Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > But unfortunately the
> > > line '${HOME}*) w+=$(echo ${PA} | sed s"|${HOME}|~|") ;;' does not work
> > > as intended. The tilde is always "escaped". So the output looks like:
> > >   \~
> > >   \~/folder
> > > 
> > > How can I remove the backslash.
> > 
> > I presume you mean it's escaped when it's inserted on the command line.
> > 
> > The short answer is you need to add the -Q flag to the compadd at the
> > end of the function so that the name doesn't get quoted.
> 
> Ah, it's coming back a bit...  Try adding -f instead of -Q.  That tells
> the system it's a file name, and I think that's good enough that it
> knows tildes are special.
> 
> pws