Re: Bug: cd auto-completion of .. fails with parentheses in directory name

[Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 7:30 PM, Bart Schaefer
<schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sep 22,  2:42pm, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> }
> } 1) Is the lifetime correct?  I'm not sure whether elemnts of 'l' should
> } be malloc()ed or heap allocated.
>
> I think you have this correct -- completion is designed to put nearly
> all of its data in a private zsh heap that is discarded all at once
> when control returns to the line editor.  Only specific bits that persist
> across calls go into directly-malloc'd memory.
>
> } 2) Should quoting be added in bin_compfiles() or at a later point during
> } cf_pats()?  Although the docstring of cfp_test_exact() says the elements
> } of 'l' are filenames, they are then passed to ztat() which ignores
> } backslashes, so it's not clear to me what quoting is expected where.
>
> I think you have this in the right place, too, but I would be glad to
> have someone else confirm.  Or we can just put it in and see if any
> other examples break.

This patch breaks completion of
% mkdir '[a]'; touch '[a]/foo'
% ls \[a\]/<tab> # gives no results

for me. Reverting it on current master fixes it.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson