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Re: [PATCH] Don't complete dirs as suffix aliases

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From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't complete dirs as suffix aliases
Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 12:18:47 +0100 (BST)
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> On 11 May 2022 at 11:44 Marlon Richert <marlon.richert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 11:03 AM Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On 5/11/22, Marlon Richert <marlon.richert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > ...because suffix aliases don't work with directories.
> >
> > In what sense do they not work?
>
> % zsh -f
> % alias -s marlon=echo
> % mkdir hello.marlon
> % hello.marlon
> zsh: command not found: hello.marlon

So I think you need to change the line you added to

[[ -o autocd ]] || pat+='(#q^/)'

Not a particularly obvious use case, but presumably best not to break it.

pws

References:
- [PATCH] Don't complete dirs as suffix aliases
  - From: Marlon Richert
- Re: [PATCH] Don't complete dirs as suffix aliases
  - From: Mikael Magnusson
- Re: [PATCH] Don't complete dirs as suffix aliases
  - From: Marlon Richert

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