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Path completion causing ambiguous path tail to disappear
- X-seq: zsh-workers 9800
- From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Path completion causing ambiguous path tail to disappear
- Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 04:11:19 +0000
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This is not exactly a complaint, because I can (almost) get the behavior I
want by using a style ... rather it's a question of whether the default
behavior should be different.
I have my zsh sources under /usr/src/local/zsh/. With dev-19:
zagzig[36] cd /usr/s/l/<TAB>
The valid completions at this point should be
/usr/src/local /usr/src/linux /usr/share/libtool /usr/share/locale
However, what happens is that the word on the command line is *shortened*,
leaving me with
zagzig[36] cd /usr/s/
with the cursor on top of the final `/'. Now, I don't mind the cursor
moving back to that point if that's where I need to disambiguate, but I
was surprised that zsh deleted the tail of the path rather than simply
feeping, or displaying the list.
Note that if I start with no trailing slash, i.e.
zagzig[36] cd /usr/s/l<TAB>
*then* the behavior is what I expect; the cursor moves back to the `/'
but the `l' remains on the line.
If I use
zstyle ':completion:*:paths' expand prefix
Then I get the behavior I want from expand-or-complete, but not from
complete-word (which causes predict-on to break, which is how I really
noticed all of this in the first place).
Why does the trailing slash cause the `l/' to be deleted?
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