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

Awesome, thank you! I've been trying to figure this out for so long, I'm
ecstatic that I found a solution. I was trying a similar replacement with
BUFFER in my zshrc but couldn't get it to work. I also couldn't figure out
how to debug this, so thanks for the info about the _complete_debug option.

On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 5:24 PM Bart Schaefer <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 7:35 AM Trevor Avant <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Ok that setting gets me closer. However it doesn't get me all the way
> there
>
> A quick check with _complete_debug shows that regardless of compadd -Q
> or the setting of ignorebraces the internals are assigning
>
> _lastcomp[prefix]='a\{'
>
> which won't match 'a{' on the command line when you arrive at the second
> TAB.
>
> So what you need is something along the lines of
>
> #compdef myfun
> PREFIX=${PREFIX//\\\{/\{}
> compadd -Q a{b
> compadd -Q a{c
> compadd -Q a{cd
> compadd -Q a{ce
>
> You might be able to use (Q) instead of the // replacement, but that
> could unquote too much.
>