Re: [PATCH] completion: make compatible with zsh

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On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] wrote:

Mark Lodato wrote:

quoted

${var:2}
    Zsh uses $var[3,-1] to trim the first two characters.  There is no
    way to write cross-shell code to accomplish this, so we must wrap
    this in a check for zsh.

Maybe

       ${var#??}

Good idea.  I'll include this in the next version of the patch.