Re: completion ( compctl ) does not trigger for command names containing dashes

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From: Fredrik Ax <fredrik@xxxxxxxx>

To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Cc: Fredrik Ax <fredrik@xxxxxxxx>, zsh-users@xxxxxxx, zsh-workers@xxxxxxx

Subject: Re: completion ( compctl ) does not trigger for command names containing dashes

Date: Thu, 4 May 2023 09:52:17 +0200

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thx I'll give it a shoot

Den ons 3 maj 2023 kl 19:13 skrev Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

On Wed, May 3, 2023 at 2:59 AM Fredrik Ax <fredrik@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> zshprompt% compctl -k '(arg1 arg2 arg3)' with-dash
>
> # typing 'with-dash ' and hitting [Tab] once:
> zshprompt% with-dash
> file2.txt myfile1.txt

This dates back to the tokenization of hyphens to fix bugs in [a-z]
types of patterns. The ancient code in compctl is using the raw
command string and therefore looking for completions for
$'with\233-dash' rather than 'with-dash'.

See if this (attached) fixes it without breaking anything else.

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