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Re: file completion of ~user/... stats wrong directory

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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: file completion of ~user/... stats wrong directory
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:21:32 +0100
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Greg Klanderman wrote:
> So do you agree it's a bug that it's stat-ing the path with the ~user/
> stripped off, effectively then relative to the current directory?
> 
> So, if it needs to go through that loop at least once, then maybe when
> 'prepath' (singular) is '' it should be prepending any stuff that got
> stripped off the front back on?  Guess I'll have to grovel through
> there and try to make sense of what's going on...

Certainly sounds plausible.  It's odd this isn't an ever worse problem,
but _path_files has so many possibilities it's surprisingly hard to
trigger particular problems.

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Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
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