RE: [PATCH] zsh completion: 5.0.3 compat, use emulate

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 30, 2014, 06:03 UTC
Message-ID: <53609249b388d_597a125b3084d@nysa.notmuch>
In-Reply-To: <EMXW5CZ-001FUQ-3S@ilmenite.field.spodhuis.org>

Phil Pennock wrote:

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> The bash completion pulled into zsh was being pulled in _as_ zsh, but
> used patterns which relied on falling through as unhandled.  In zsh
> 5.0.3 this no longer works, resulting in:
> 
>     __git_complete_remote_or_refspec:33: bad pattern: +*
> 
> Fix by telling zsh to emulate sh while sourcing the bash config file,
> which stickily preserves compatibility options in the function context.
> This usage of "emulate" came in with zsh 4.3.10, released 2009-06-01.

I'm using 5.9.5 and I don't see any issue. Howe exactly have you configured this script?

> Signed-off-by: Phil Pennock <pdp@spodhuis.org>
> ---
> nb: I am not on the git mailing-list, please keep me CC'd.

No need to say that. This is a sane mailing list with doesn't do reply-to munging[1], so you are Cc'ed by default, in essentially al MUA's out there.

[1] http://felipec.wordpress.com/2010/08/03/avoid-reply-to-munging-mail-as-mail-was-meant-to-be/

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Felipe Contreras