Re: zsh 4.x bug in completion?

["Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I get very strange behavior from 4.0.2.

With

zstyle ':completion:*' completer _complete _prefix  

I get:

schaefer<503> <Ctrl-P>
schaefer<503> echo foo<Ctrl-A>
schaefer<503> sud<TAB>echo foo
schaefer<503> sudoecho  foo
                       ^
		       cursor here

That is, it inserts `sudo' with no trailing space, but then moves to
the end of the word `echo' and adds a space *there*.  That is almost
certainly wrong?

I get exactly the same thing from 4.1.0-dev-2.

If I then add

zstyle ':completion:*' add-space yes

I get `sudo echo  foo', that is, it has added a space both after `sudo'
and after `echo'.

And, by the way, with TAB bound to expand-or-complete-prefix, I can in
fact reproduce the original complaint.  Auto-removing the space may make
sense when completing in the middle of a file path, but it doesn't when
completing in command position.

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