Re: zcompsys space character problem

[Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bart Schaefer wrote:

> ...
> 
> Changing line 461 from
> 
> 	compfiles -r tmp1 "$tmp3"
> 
> to
> 
> 	compfiles -r tmp1 "${(Q)tmp3}"
> 
> has the desired effect in this particular case, but I don't know if it is
> always correct.  Sven, are you out there?

I wasn't sure if it weren't better to put this into the C-code, but
leaving it in the shell code seems much more flexible (and, somehow,
logical).

Below is Bart's suggestion put into a patch which I'm goinh to commit.


Bye
  Sven

Index: Completion/Unix/Type/_path_files
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/Completion/Unix/Type/_path_files,v
retrieving revision 1.19
diff -u -r1.19 _path_files
--- Completion/Unix/Type/_path_files	2 Jul 2002 14:06:49 -0000	1.19
+++ Completion/Unix/Type/_path_files	6 Nov 2002 07:55:34 -0000
@@ -464,7 +464,7 @@
     # names. This avoids having `foo' complete to `foo' and `foobar'.
     # The return value is non-zero if the component is ambiguous.
 
-    compfiles -r tmp1 "$tmp3"
+    compfiles -r tmp1 "${(Q)tmp3}"
     tmp4=$?
 
     if [[ "$tpre" = */* ]]; then

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Sven Wischnowsky                          wischnow@xxxxxxxxx