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Re: How to capture the tab completion result?

On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Mario Signorino
<mario.signorino@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> zstyle ":completion:*:descriptions" format "\033[H<DESCRIPTION>%d</DESCRIPTION>"
>
> Is it also possible to enable the interpretation of backslash escapes?

Just use the $'...' notation to embed a literal escape in the style:

zstyle ":completion:*:descriptions" format
$'\033[H<DESCRIPTION>%d</DESCRIPTION>'

It's sort of a matter of personal preference whether to write
$'\033'"[H..." (concatenate two sets of quotes) or just wrap the whole
thing in $'...' like I did.  Concatenating the double quotes makes it
easier to reference variables, etc., but you can't use $'...' inside
double quotes.
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