On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 7:55 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Felipe Contreras wrote: >> >>> It turns out 'words' is a special variable used by zsh completion, and >>> it has some strange behavior as we can see. >>> >>> Better avoid it. >> >> Hoorah! ÂI imagine this fixes a regression introduced by >> v1.7.4-rc0~11^2~2 (bash: get --pretty=m<tab> completion to work with >> bash v4, 2010-12-02). >> >> ÂAcked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> > > I'd love to share the enthusiasm, but find that "as we can see" needs a > much more clarification. Jonathan already described it: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/170665 And this snipped demonstrates it: --- set_vars () { cur="foo" words="foo" cwords="foo" } _foo () { local cur words cwords set_vars echo "cur=${cur} words=${words} cwords=${cwords}" >> /tmp/comp_test.txt } compdef _foo foo --- When trying to auto-complete 'foo' the result would be: cur=foo words= cwords=foo You can see it's special in the source code: http://zsh.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=zsh/zsh;a=blob;f=Src/Zle/complete.c;h=6398fd3e77eff2ef819c10503d316b08421034ac;hb=HEAD#l1116 -- Felipe Contreras -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html