Re: zsh: insert-last-word problem after completion

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:53:31 +0200
Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> After a "zsh -f":
> 
> % alias my_echo=echo
> % false
> % true &
> % my_ech[TAB]
> 
> A succession of [ESC] . (bound to insert-last-word) gives:
> 
>   my_echo&
>   my_echo&&
>   my_echo&false
> 
> while I would expect:
> 
>   my_echo &
>   my_echo false

That's a bug:  can you get it to happen with the new completion system (I
tried briefly and failed)?  I presume there's a gap in the suffix-fixing
logic for completion.

> or even better:
> 
>   my_echo true
>   my_echo false
> 
> i.e. the "&" should be ignored by insert-last-word.

That's not a bug.  As Mikael suggested, you need to use something that's
smart about syntax; that's not the job of insert-last-word, which only
knows about the division into editing words.

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