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Re: Bug#270608: zsh: dpkg completion broken



On Sat, 11 Sep 2004, martin f krafft wrote:

> zstyle ':completion:*:(all-|)files' ignored-patterns '*.bk' '*~' '*\#'

> This opens another issue... the manpage says that 
> 
>   Note that the EXTENDED_GLOB option is set during  the  execution
>   of completion functions, so the characters #, ~ and ^ have
>   special meanings in the patterns.
> 
> However, the above line only works if I do *not* escape ~.

That's probably because ~ has special meaning only at certain positions in 
patterns, and at the end is not one of them.

However, it is a little surprising.



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