[Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#853130: Bug#853130: zsh: Incomplete completion list for man -a

[Axel Beckert]

Control: tag -1 + confirmed upstream fixed-upstream
Control: forwarded -1 http://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2017/msg00011.html
Control: found -1 5.3-1

Hi,

thanks for the bug report.

Celelibi wrote:
> Since a few weeks (or month now), zsh has hard time completing the
> manpages names when the command line features a '-a' option.
> 
> Typing in:
> man -a [tab]
> Shows a suggestion list of only 73 manpages instead of 8086.

This issue is known upstream and has been a regression in 5.3 (and
5.3.1) which has been fixed upstream only after 5.3.1 in this commit:

commit 385cb9b9f0757d0203656d9bea3e5ba0dc7916c3
Author: Daniel Shahaf <d.s at daniel.shahaf.name>
Date:   Tue Jan 3 14:23:36 2017 +0000

    40264: _man: Complete all sections after '-a'.
    
    Followup to 37634.

		Regards, Axel
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