Bug#847203: systemd: journalctl zsh completion fails with RC_QUOTES

[Felipe Sateler]

On 6 December 2016 at 11:13, Vincent Lefevre <vincent at vinc17.net> wrote:
> Package: systemd
> Version: 232-7
> Severity: minor
> Tags: upstream patch
>
> I've reported the following bug upstream:
>
>   https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/4842
>
> With the following commands after "zsh -f"
>
> autoload -U compinit
> compinit
> setopt RC_QUOTES
>
> the journalctl completion fails:
>
> cventin% journalctl [TAB]
> _arguments:comparguments:319: invalid argument: (--directory -D -M --machine --root --file)'--root=[Operate on catalog hierarchy under specified directory]:directories:_directories
>
> This is probably due to the repeated single quote in:
>
>     '(--directory -D -M --machine --root --file)''--root=[Operate on catalog hierarchy under specified directory]:directories:_directories' \
>
> in "/usr/share/zsh/vendor-completions/_journalctl".
>
> I suppose that the repeated single quote should be removed like in
> the following line:
>
>     '(--directory -D -M --machine --root)--file=[Operate on specified journal files]:file:_files' \
>
> At least, this is equivalent without RC_QUOTES.
> I've attached the corresponding patch.

I think the better fix is to somehow make zsh use default option
values when evaluating the completion functions. I see that some
completions use `emulate -LR zsh` (although both -L and -R are skipped
in some completions). Could you try if that fixes the issue for you?

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler