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

On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 7:09 AM Trevor Avant <[email protected]> wrote:
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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.

I get the same result with that setup, it seems it worked for me
because of this piece of configuration:

  zstyle ':completion:*' completer _complete _correct

which is a little unexpected, at least to me. (my actual value for
that key is _oldlist _expand _complete _correct fwiw, but the above is
enough to reproduce the working result). My guess is the { gets parsed
into some value other than a literal { at some point, and _correct
cancels out this small discrepancy to show the wanted completions.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson