Re: Is this a bug or I'm completely lost?

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Bart Schaefer wrote:
> It certainly appears that this is the intentional behavior of compadd -k, 
> based on a look at the code.  If you specify multiple arrays in a single 
> compadd, they're assumed to indicate a preference ordering (e.g. nameddirs 
> xor userdirs) whereas if you use separate compadds they're cumulative.  
> The code very explicitly stops searching as soon as a partial match has 
> been found; the only reason you get all of them in your first example is 
> that there are no partial matches.

It's hard to believe it's a useful feature.  grep suggests it's not
used.  I can't see what you'd use it for.  Doesnt' ${array:-$array2}, or
something similar do it more clearly?

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Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
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