Re: Strange _values completion on accept-and-menu-complete and menu selection

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Bart Schaefer wrote:
> > This still has problems in completing nested calls to _values (should it 
> > work?)
> 
> I don't have time to debug carefully just now, but I suspect without any 
> real evidence that compstate[compound_word] is becoming unset on return 
> from the nested call and therefore is wrong for the subsequent selections
> for the outer call.

I'm not looking at the particular problem in any detail, but I believe
this is standard behaviour for completion variables to make it easier to
chain completions without saving and restoring inconvenient amounts of
state.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
CSR PLC, Churchill House, Cambridge Business Park, Cowley Road
Cambridge, CB4 0WZ, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070


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