Re: Patch (?) for _path_files

[Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 06 May 2011 08:05:55 -0700
Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I believe this has to do with the thread "Re: Another _path_files bug?"
> from the first couple of weeks of February 2011.
> 
> --- ../zsh-forge/current/Completion/Unix/Type/_path_files       2011-02-13 10:44
> :16 -0800
> +++ ./Completion/Unix/Type/_path_files  2011-02-13 10:51:33 -0800
> @@ -751,10 +751,11 @@
>        [[ "$tsuf" != /* ]] && mid="$testpath"
>        if [[ -z "$_comp_correct" && -n "$compstate[pattern_match]" &&
>              "$tmp2" = (|*[^\\])[][*?#~^\|\<\>]* ]]; then
> -        cpre="${cpre}${tmp1[1]%%/*}/"
> +        cpre="${cpre}${tmp1[1]%%/*}"
>        else
> -        cpre="${cpre}${tpre}/"
> +        cpre="${cpre}${tpre}"
>        fi
> +      [[ "$tsuf" = /* ]] && cpre+=/
>        tpre="${tsuf#*/}"
>        tsuf=
>      else
> 
> I backed out most of my scratch work from that thread when PWS posted
> workers/28750, but kept this bit -- for reasons that sadly I now no
> longer remember.  It avoids appending a slash to the common prefix (if
> I recall correctly what cpre means, which I may not) unless there was
> a leading slash on the tested suffix (again IIRC tsuf).  I suspect
> this was meant to prevent double slash appearing in some completions.
> 
> Any opinions on whether this is correct/useful?

Unless we find it out case it affects, I don't think we can tell.

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