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Re: Regression: broken completion on modification time




18.06.2016, 01:09, "Oliver Kiddle" <okiddle@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> "Nikolay Aleksandrovich Pavlov (ZyX)" wrote:
>>  I would say “yes” just to check what possibilities is it talking about. Question is why would I hit `<Tab>` in first place: if I did not see this discussion I would not ever suggest that completing a (mostly) numeric and in any case very short argument to `m` has any sense.
>
> It may not be useful to "complete" short things but the descriptions can
> be very useful. There's quite a few cases where this is done, e.g.:
>   printf '%<tab>
>   : ${(<tab>
>   !!:<tab>
>
>>  Also if I write `ls *(m)` with cursor after `m` and hit `<Tab>` I get “Completing: digit (invalid time specifier)” (nothing if I use `autoload compinit ; compinit` in `zsh -f`, or “Completing: `files'” with no list after `unsetopt completeinword`):
>
> Stripping suffixes is easily forgotten when writing completion functions
> and this was one such case. Patch below should fix this and make
> it indicate the default of "days" when there is no time specifier.
>
> With `unsetopt completeinword', you have the equivalent of moving the
> cursor to the end of the word. *(m) is an invalid glob matching no
> files. You might also want to consider using the _prefix completer which
> ignores the entire suffix.
>
>>  Particularly, the most failing thing is `ls foo{bar<Tab>}`: this usually either does nothing or expands immediately if I already happened to write a comma.
>
> Are you using the _expand completer or the default expand-or-complete
> widget to do expansion.

I have `_expand _complete` set as completer zstyle. Though I have rechecked this with “zsh -f; autoload compinit; compinit” before posting, don’t know what is being used here.

>
> Braces are largely handled by internal C code: _prefix doesn't seem able
> to help here. You can prevent the expansion with something like:
>   zstyle -e ':completion:*::::' completer \
>     'reply=( _oldlist _complete ); (( $#SUFFIX )) || reply[1]+=( _expand )'
>
> Oliver
>
> diff --git a/Completion/Unix/Type/_files b/Completion/Unix/Type/_files
> index fe0780a..6987824 100644
> --- a/Completion/Unix/Type/_files
> +++ b/Completion/Unix/Type/_files
> @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ local ret=1
>  # we don't want to complete them multiple times (for each file pattern).
>  if _have_glob_qual $PREFIX; then
>    compset -p ${#match[1]}
> + compset -S '[^\)\|\~]#(|\))'
>    if [[ $_comp_caller_options[extendedglob] == on ]] && compset -P '\#'; then
>      _globflags && ret=0
>    else
> diff --git a/Completion/Unix/Type/_path_files b/Completion/Unix/Type/_path_files
> index 14c4cc7..6a1e89f 100644
> --- a/Completion/Unix/Type/_path_files
> +++ b/Completion/Unix/Type/_path_files
> @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ local -a match mbegin mend
>  if _have_glob_qual $PREFIX; then
>    local ret=1
>    compset -p ${#match[1]}
> + compset -S '[^\)\|\~]#(|\))'
>    if [[ $_comp_caller_options[extendedglob] == on ]] && compset -P '\#'; then
>      _globflags && ret=0
>    else
> diff --git a/Completion/Zsh/Type/_globquals b/Completion/Zsh/Type/_globquals
> index 2523eb3..ed9c008 100644
> --- a/Completion/Zsh/Type/_globquals
> +++ b/Completion/Zsh/Type/_globquals
> @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ while [[ -n $PREFIX ]]; do
>          alts+=("senses:sense:compadd -E 0 -d sdisp -S '' - + '' -")
>        fi
>        specmap=( M months w weeks h hours m minutes s seconds '(|+|-|d)' days)
> - alts+=('digits:digit ('${${specmap[(K)$timespec]}:-invalid time specifier}'):_dates -f ${${timespec/[-+]/d}:-d} -S ""' )
> + alts+=('digits:digit ('${${specmap[(K)${timespec:-d}]}:-invalid time specifier}'):_dates -f ${${timespec/[-+]/d}:-d} -S ""' )
>        _alternative $alts
>        return
>      fi



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