[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: zsh-4.2.0-1

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Thorsten Kampe wrote:

> * Peter A. Castro (2004-03-26 18:10 +0100)
> > BTW, I've tried many, many ways to reproduce your original hang
> > problem but am still unable to do so.
>
> One last try: I have recently set option "autocd"[1]. Now when I type
> something like "adksfaj" the delay (~ 10 seconds) is the same like
> with the correction mechanism ("/skjhf/aksjfdh"). It is noticeable
> that unlike normal completions I cannot stop the "hanging" search (or
> whatever it is) by [Ctrl]-[C].
>
> In /this case/ I have found the "culprit": I have "/" in my CDPATH[2].
> When I remove "/" it "works" normally by instantly saying "command not
> found". Of course this "doesn't make sense" as there are only nine
> directories in "/" and of course having "/" in cdpath is okay on my
> Linux box.

FWIW, I know nothing about zsh; I don't use it; but your statement above
triggered an association, so here's a WAG.  Many applications assume that
having multiple trailing slashes is equivalent to having one slash (and it
is in Linux).  I have seen applications blindly appending a "/" to a path,
just to make sure it ends in a / (don't know if zsh does it).  This, of
course, doesn't work in Cygwin when the path is just a "/", because a "//"
prefix is special.  I'd look through the path composition pieces of the
zsh code to see if "/" is ever appended -- I think that might be your
culprit.  The fix would be to check whether a path ends in "/" before
appending one.  HTH,
	Igor

> Maybe this "bug" (or whatever) is just "behaving" the same way like
> the "correction bug" but my hope is that it may "ring some bell" on
> your side (or any zsh user's)...
>
> > It is my hope that 1.5.10 will resolve this for you.  But, if not,
> > some serious debugging will need to be done on your machine.  Have
> > you tried the latest snapshot?
>
> I will try it when it's bash-unbroken ;-)
>
> Thorsten
>
> [1] "If a command is issued that can't be executed as a normal
> command, and the command is the name of a directory, perform the cd
> command to that directory"
>
> [2] cdpath=(.. ~ / /cygdrive/h /cygdrive/g /cygdrive/c)

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