Re: bashcompinit: sourcing /etc/bash_completion

[Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 7:15 PM, Daniel Hahler
<genml+zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 11.06.2015 04:14, Bart Schaefer wrote:
>> On Jun 10, 10:09pm, Daniel Hahler wrote:
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>> } It fails with the following line:
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>> }     local cword words=()
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>> Well, that's unfortunate.  In zsh "local" is not a special token, so the
>> arguments are parsed as normal shell words, so you cannot have an array
>> initialization as part of a "local" declaration.
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> Could this be easily improved, without breaking backward-compatibility?
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> (I've found myself trying to use this pattern before.)

It's probably much easier to ask the bash-completion maintainer to
initialize words on the next line.

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Mikael Magnusson