Re: PATCH: invalid completion with a custom matcher

>  the white space in your patch is corrupt (it's ok on github)

I'll clean it up some way if we decide to merge it.

As for what you are missing - I'm not sure. Here's me doing the same steps
(I copy-pasted your commands):

% zsh -f
% pwd
/tmp/repr
% ls -lha
total 0
drwxrwxr-x  2 pacak pacak   40 May 12 11:38 .
drwxrwxrwt 85 root  root  2.2K May 12 11:39 ..
% touch 'Strategy TB' 'Strategy Scenario'
% zstyle ':completion:*' matcher-list 'm:{a-zA-Z}={A-Za-z}'
% autoload -Uz compinit && compinit -D
% ls Strategy\ t
ls: cannot access 'Strategy t': No such file or directory
% : Strategy\ t
% zsh --version
zsh 5.9 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)

On lines "% ls Strategy\ t" and "% : Strategy\ t" I typed "ls St<TAB>" and
": St<TAB>" respectively.

% lsb_release -a
LSB Version:    n/a
Distributor ID: Fedora
Description:    Fedora Linux 43 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition)
Release:        43
Codename:       n/a

% locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=C
LC_TIME=C
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES=C
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT=C
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

I think I was able to reproduce it with the version in the git as well and
I was not able to reproduce it after the patch.


On Tue, May 12, 2026 at 10:44 AM dana <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon 11 May 2026, at 19:19, Michael wrote:
> > Problem depends on having a case insensitive matcher enabled for
> > replicating with zsh -f, as far as I understand it is commonly used.
>
> the white space in your patch is corrupt (it's ok on github)
>
> anyway i still don't know how to replicate the problem. i tried:
>
>   % zsh -f
>   % cd /tmp
>   % touch 'Strategy TB' 'Strategy Scenario'
>   % zstyle ':completion:*' matcher-list 'm:{a-zA-Z}={A-Za-z}'
>   % autoload -Uz compinit && compinit -D
>
> but i get:
>
>   % : St<TAB>          # -> 'Strategy\ '
>   % : Strategy\ <TAB>  # -> 'Strategy\ ' with list
>   % : Strategy\ <TAB>  # -> 'Strategy\ Scenario'
>
> what setting am i missing?
>
> dana
>