zsh autocompletion not working correctly

[Wesley Schwengle]

Binary package hint: zsh

10:50 pts/2 0 wesleys@sinti:/home/wesleys$ vi
_vim:30: unmatched '
10:50 pts/2 0 wesleys@sinti:/home/wesleys$ less
_less:23: unmatched '

The same goes for _diff_options.

echo $ZSH_VERSION
4.3.4

dpkg -l | grep zsh
ii zsh 4.3.4-24ubuntu1 A shell with lots of features

Linux sinti 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Aug 20 22:56:21 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04
Codename: hardy

Attached to this file is a tarball with patches for /usr/share/zsh/4.3.4/functions/Completion/Unix/_(vim|less|diff_options)

[Wesley Schwengle (wesleys)]

a new _less.patch, the patch in the tarball did not resolve an issue on line 92.

[Wesley Schwengle (wesleys)]

See also http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.bugs.dist/browse_thread/thread/690da53c54ae17ec/798b933873897d6e?lnk=raot#

_patch also has similar issues.

[Markus Korn (thekorn)]

Hi Wesley,
thanks for reporting this bug. and working on a fix.
Unfortunately I'm not able to reproduce such issues with the latest version of zsh. can you please
 * check if you can still reproduce this bug
 * and if so give detailed information how to reproduce this one (e.g. is it "vi<TAB>" or "vi <TAB>")

Thanks in advance
Markus

[Wesley Schwengle (wesleys)]

It has to do with csh_junkie_quotes which I have enabled. See the link to the Debian bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/zsh/+bug/264644/comments/3

[Markus Korn (thekorn)]

The last comment in the upstream bugreport says that this bug has been fixed in version 4.3.9-1 of zsh.
This version is already in jaunty, our current development focus. Can you please try this version and verify if this version works?

Thanks,
Markus

[Wesley Schwengle (wesleys)]

I'm running 8.04.2 LTS and no plans to upgrade to Ubuntu 9.x in the near future. If there is a backport available for 8.04.x I will be more then happy to test it.

[Wesley Schwengle (wesleys)]

I really don't get why this bug got set to incomplete. I've provided debian bug reports with the reason, there is a fix, but it doesn't reach the LTS version..

I've changed the status to confirmed, since I would like an update on this.

[Wesley Schwengle (wesleys)]

I've installed the Jaunty version of zsh, which fixes this bug. So far so good (libc6 is upgraded as a dep).