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Re: Global-alias problem with _expand

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From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Global-alias problem with _expand
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 10:13:15 +0200 (MET DST)
In-reply-to: Wayne Davison's message of Mon, 9 Oct 2000 09:17:51 -0700 (PDT)
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Wayne Davison wrote:

> Global aliases can cause a problem in the _expand completer:
> 
> % zsh -f
> 
> % autoload -U compinit
> % compinit
> % zstyle ':completion:*' completer _expand
> % alias -g T='|tail'
> % l T<TAB>
> _expand:-1: parse error near `|'

Rats. Look:

  % alias -g 'T=|foo'
  % eval 'exp=( T )'
  zsh: parse error near `|'

Anyone know how to avoid that?

Bye
 Sven


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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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