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From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-completion: workaround zsh COMPREPLY bug
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:02:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqr4ynzbj7.fsf@bauges.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMP44s16L0GJUh4JcQgjBXUf4ftT7yQFgPy0p6zCNMnZjZGQww@mail.gmail.com> (Felipe Contreras's message of "Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:16:53 +0200")

Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:

>>> +             typeset -h IFS
>>
>> No time to test right now, but is this not going to
>>
>> 1) leave IFS as hidden even outside the completion script, possibly
>> affecting unrelated scripts that would need to set IFS as local and keep
>> its special effect?
>
> What special effect?
>
> Unrelated scripts can still set IFS as local.

OK, I missed the fact that typeset -h had only local effect.

>> 2) break cases where strings are to be split on \n only (e.g. see
>> "foo bar\nboz" as three possible completions "foo", "bar", "boz" instead
>> of "foo bar" and "boz"?
>
> Those cases are already broken, which is what I reported to the zsh
> mailing list. You would get "foo\ bar" and "boz", and that's after
> 4.3.12; before, compgen -W would still break the completions in 3,
> because they did 'results+=( $words )', instead of 'results+=(
> "$words" )'.

Makes sense.

I still have a minor comment: maybe part of your commit message could go
to a comment in the code as well, in particular the "Once zsh is fixed"
part, to help future contributors to actually disable the workaround
when possible in the future.

Tested-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-25 22:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-25  1:37 [PATCH] git-completion: workaround zsh COMPREPLY bug Felipe Contreras
2012-01-25  7:41 ` Matthieu Moy
2012-01-25 12:16   ` Felipe Contreras
2012-01-25 22:02     ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
2012-01-28 17:18       ` Felipe Contreras
2012-01-26 22:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-01-27 16:33   ` Felipe Contreras

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