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Re: PATCH: completion regex handling

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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxx (Zsh hackers list)
Subject: Re: PATCH: completion regex handling
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:18:57 -0800
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On Feb 25, 10:37pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
}
} One of my projects for a while has been to work out how to use
} _regex_arguments.

(Applause)

} Reading the documentation and the code didn't help.

I'm glad I'm not the only one to think that.

} There are a few problems.  I couldn't work out how to add separators
} other than space to a command added from within a regex argument
} specifier.  It should have been possible to use _values -s, but for some
} reason that didn't work.

I seem to recall some other places where _values doesn't work correctly.
Maybe something related to the recursion problem mentioned in the thread
spawned by zsh-workers/20618?

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