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Re: bug report about zsh

Jun T wrote on Tue, 21 Aug 2018 12:24 +0900:
> all of these complete to foo@xxxxxxxx and the 123 will never be offered.
> So I wonder why : is in the pattern [:@]. Is it just to ignore the
> port number (if it exists)?

The 'else' branch deals exclusively with the portion before the "@" sign
of the (incomplete) "user@host" word on the command line.

The ':' there allows values of the users-hosts style to use colons, as in:

zstyle '*' users-hosts danielsh:localhost
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