Re: _expand doesn't do brace expansion?

[Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bart Schaefer wrote:

> On Jun 15, 11:20am, Sven Wischnowsky wrote:
> } Subject: Re: _expand doesn't do brace expansion?
> }
> } Oh, didn't everyone know that?
> 
> _complete manages to complete inside braces; why does the code that
> understands braces stop taking them apart when there's a closed pair?
> AFAICT, no completion works at all once any close brace is in place,
> even if that's within an outer set of braces, e.g.

It simply gives up.

With `a{b,c}<TAB>' the completion code would have to generate the
matches for `ab' and `ac', then built the intersection to get the
suffixes (and prefixes if there's a suffix, i.e. the middle-strings)
which are in both sets (in all n sets, actually). And that mey be
combined with arbitrarily complicated match specs. Frightening.

Or have I missed something?

Bye
 Sven


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