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Re: How to complete named directories?

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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Sebastian Gniazdowski <sgniazdowski@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: How to complete named directories?
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2022 15:59:03 -0700
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On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 1:27 AM Sebastian Gniazdowski
<sgniazdowski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I'm using the $VAR -> ~VAR feature but ~VAR isn't completed. How to fix this?

If you mean that

% cd ~V<TAB>

does not complete to

% cd ~VAR

then that's confusing, because it certainly works for me, even if the
value of $VAR doesn't point to an existing location.

If you mean something else, e.g. as Eric speculated, you're going to
have to tell us.

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- How to complete named directories?
  - From: Sebastian Gniazdowski

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