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Re: Completing within colon separated paths

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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>
To: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxx (Zsh users list), John Cooper <john.cooper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Completing within colon separated paths
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 15:53:39 +0000
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> Is there a way to have TAB complete '/usr/local' from the X (marking cursor
> position) in the following:
> 
>   $ .:/home/jsc/bin:/usr/locX:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/java/jdk1.3/bin

If you are using the new completion system, then it will work as long as
you are performing a parameter assignment (or it does for me).  So

$ PATH=/foo/bar:...

or

$ typeset PATH=/foo/bar:...

should perform completion correctly.  This is why it works in vared --- the
context is treated similarly to a parameter assignment.  (You still need
expand-or-complete-prefix --- I don't know if it's to be considered a bug
that the colon before is used as a word separator while the one after
isn't.)

Now everything computes?
-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Unit 300, Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0XL, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 392070

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