Re: Is there a way to complete arguments with brace characters without using backslashes or quotes?

Thanks, I have reduced my zsh configuration to a minimal setup, but I'm
still getting the same results. Here is my /home/trevor/.zshrc

fpath=(/home/trevor/zsh_completions/ $fpath)
autoload -Uz compinit promptinit
compinit
promptinit

and here is /home/trevor/zsh_completions/_myfun

#compdef myfun
compadd -Q a{b
compadd -Q a{c

and then I enter

$ setopt ignore_braces
$ myfun <TAB>

which completes to

$ myfun a{

but then nothing happens on subsequent TAB presses (the two completion
options aren't shown). If I change "a{b" and "a{c" to "abb" and "abc" then
it works as expected (it shows the two options below prompt on the first
TAB press, and then cycles through them on subsequent TAB presses). I am
using Arch Linux and have tried a few different terminal emulators as well.


On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 12:40 AM Mikael Magnusson <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 4:48 AM Trevor Avant <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > I've spent a lot of time trying to figure this out, but haven't been
> able to find a solution. Is there a way to complete the brace characters {
> or } without having to escape them with a backslash, or put the entire
> argument in quotes? In other words, I would like to make zsh treat the
> brace character as it does letter and number characters.
> >
> > I have tried using the "-Q" flag to compadd, but this doesn't work as I
> hoped. For example, I set the following for a function named "myfun":
> >
> > compadd -Q a{b
> > compadd -Q a{c
> >
> > and then entering
> >
> > $ setopt ignore_braces
> > $ myfun <TAB>
> >
> > will complete to
> >
> > $ myfun a{
> >
> > but the two completion options aren't shown.
>
> Works fine here, so you'll probably have the same results if you
> change your code to abb abc instead of a{b a{c. Eg, the problem is
> something else. Try pressing tab more times, you can configure zsh to
> require quite a few presses on ambiguous completion before it starts
> cycling, and probably disable it altogether.
>
> --
> Mikael Magnusson
>