Re: [PATCH] git-completion: workaround zsh COMPREPLY bug

Felipe Contreras [off-list ref] writes:

The simplest and most generic solution is to hide all the changes we do
to IFS, so that "foo \nbar " is recognized by zsh as "foo bar". This
works on versions of git before and after the introduction of
__gitcomp_nl (a31e626), and versions of zsh before and after 4.3.12.

[...]

+
+		# another workaround for zsh because it would quote spaces in
+		# the COMPREPLY array if IFS doesn't contain spaces
+		typeset -h IFS

No time to test right now, but is this not going to

1) leave IFS as hidden even outside the completion script, possibly
affecting unrelated scripts that would need to set IFS as local and keep
its special effect?

2) break cases where strings are to be split on \n only (e.g. see
"foo bar\nboz" as three possible completions "foo", "bar", "boz" instead
of "foo bar" and "boz"?

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Matthieu Moy
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