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Re: compctl -g not working

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From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: compctl -g not working
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 14:31:30 +0200
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Bart Schaefer wrote:

> ...
> 
> The reason that "some other places" does not include `compctl -s' is
> because -s actually *does* pass the string through the lexer again,
> whereas -g passes it only through the tokenizer.
> 
> So the questions (hey, zsh-workers) are:
> 
> Should we fix `compctl -g' so that it behaves like "ordinary" globbing?
> (I have a suggested implementation that I won't go into here.)

Would be fine with me. (I really don't care about compctl anymore ;-)

> Should we make BARE_GLOB_QUAL a bit smarter so that it knows about
> KSH_GLOB and looks back one more character to see if what precedes the
> open-paren token is one of the ksh-glob-chars?  (It already treats a
> `|' inside the parens as indicative of a glob alternation rather than
> a list of qualifiers.)

I'm with Zefram here.


Bye
  Sven

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Sven Wischnowsky                    wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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