Re: MH command completion problems

[John Harres <Harres@xxxxxxxx>]

> > Peter Stephenson wrote:
> > >tstfn() { reply=("${1%/*}/foo" "${1%/*}/bar") }
> > >compctl -K tstfn -S / -q tstfn
> > >tstfn foo/<TAB>
> > >
> > >This certainly gives me the double / (you can't get any more because
> > >of the way tstfn is defined), but autolist does work for me.
> > 
> > Yes, it's a shell bug.  In the above scenario, tstfn is getting
> > arguments "foo" and "".  The already-present suffix is being ignored at
> > that point, for completion purposes.  The function returns completions
> > "foo/foo" and "foo/bar".  If I recall the internals correctly, this is
> > being interpreted as requiring the addition of "/foo" or "/bar" to the
> > existing string "foo".  However, the additions are being applied to the
> > string actually there, "foo/", which the function saw no indication
> > of.
> > 
> > Theoretically, it's a simple matter of programming to make the -S
> > suffix be added in the right place.  Actually it's a bit of a
> > nightmare.
> 
> I think it is not a nightmare.  Try this patch (for zsh-3.0.x go to the Src
> directory first).
> 
> Zoltan

Fixed both problems for me.  THANKS!

John Harres
harres@xxxxxxxx