Re: email to zsh

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Peter Stephenson wrote:
> I can get this now.  From zsh -f, any recent version, in an empty
> directory:
> 
> files=(AIWebKitMessageViewController.m
> AIWebKitMessageViewPlugin.m
> AIWebkitMessageViewStyle.m)
> touch $files
> chmod +x *.m
> compctl -M '' 'm:{a-zA-Z}={A-Za-z}'
> ./AIWebKitMessagep
> 
> then TAB will cause it to happen.  I think the compctl -M is the key:
> it's somewhere in the hairy matcher code.

This seems to fix the problem, and allow the completion to work as
expected, though I haven't a clue what the code I've fixed is doing.

Index: Src/Zle/compmatch.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/Src/Zle/compmatch.c,v
retrieving revision 1.42
diff -u -r1.42 compmatch.c
--- Src/Zle/compmatch.c	4 Jun 2004 06:00:40 -0000	1.42
+++ Src/Zle/compmatch.c	6 Jul 2005 09:47:39 -0000
@@ -803,14 +803,26 @@
 		    /* Probably add the matched strings. */
 		    if (!test) {
 			if (sfx)
-			    add_match_str(NULL, NULL, w, ow - w, sfx);
+			{
+			    if (ow >= w)
+				add_match_str(NULL, NULL, w, ow - w, sfx);
+			}
 			else
-			    add_match_str(NULL, NULL, ow, w - ow, sfx);
+			{
+			    if (w >= ow)
+				add_match_str(NULL, NULL, ow, w - ow, sfx);
+			}
 			add_match_str(mp, tl, tw, mp->wlen, sfx);
 			if (sfx)
-			    add_match_sub(NULL, NULL, 0, w, ow - w);
+			{
+			    if (ow >= w)
+				add_match_sub(NULL, NULL, 0, w, ow - w);
+			}
 			else
-			    add_match_sub(NULL, NULL, 0, ow, w - ow);
+			{
+			    if (w >= ow)
+				add_match_sub(NULL, NULL, 0, ow, w - ow);
+			}
 			add_match_sub(mp, tl, mp->llen, tw, mp->wlen);
 		    }
 		    if (sfx) {

-- 
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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