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Re: _history-complete-older problems with $(
Bart Schaefer wrote on Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 11:39:28 -0800:
> On Jan 12, 2:09pm, Sebastian Gniazdowski wrote:
> } Why second comadd, and
> } what does "${(@)${(@)found#$PREFIX}%$SUFFIX}" do?
>
> Suppose you have "$(" on the line, and the completion is $((1+2)). The
> $found array will contain "$((1+2))" (and possibly other elements). In
> the setup to at the beginning of _widen_for_history, PREFIX="$(" was
> assigned (that $left[-1]). So now we need to remove "$(" from the
> values in $found to get the actual string to insert to finish the word,
> i.e., "(1+2))". Similarly we would need to remove $SUFFIX (taken from
> $right) from the end of the values if there were one.
>
That seems to always behave as though COMPLETE_IN_WORD is set,
regardless of the value of the option.
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