Re: rsync completions

[Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/19/22, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 11:08 AM Alan Orth <alan.orth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> A few months ago the zsh completions for rsync stopped working correctly.
>
> So if this is a problem introduced by those quoting changes in rsync
> 3.2.x, then the rsync completion has to become version-aware, which I
> see is what fish has done.

From what I can tell from
https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS#3.2.4 the change is
specifically in 3.2.4 which seems extremely user unfriendly to
introduce such a breaking change in a micro revision.

> I'm not able to tell what ramifications this has when the remote
> version differs significantly from the local version; it doesn't
> appear fish is taking that into account, so perhaps it doesn't matter.
>
> A quick workaround for you, Alan, is likely to be
> alias rsync='rsync --old-args'
>
> There might even be a clever way to insert --old-args into $BUFFER
> only when completion has been invoked, but completion widgets don't
> play well with "ordinary" line edits so I'm not going there just now.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson