[Bug 687461] Re: DIR/*<tab> expansion doesn't work with directories with apostrophe in the name

[Axel Beckert]

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Title:
  DIR/*<tab> expansion doesn't work with directories with apostrophe in
  the name

Status in Z Shell - user shell and command interpreter:
  New
Status in “zsh” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: zsh

  When the directory contains a single quote (apostrophe) in its name,
  pressing the tab key to expand dir/* into a list of files no longer
  works. What happens instead is that the tab key doesn't do anything
  while cursor is inside the dir/* word.

  This worked as expected in previous versions of zsh. In zsh 4.3.10
  (specifically 4.3.10-14ubuntu1, Ubuntu maverick) it works for
  directories without apostrophes in the name. I discovered it while
  trying to choose mp3s to queue in a music player, with the mp3s
  residing in a directory with apostrophe in the name.

  Here is a recipe to repeat the bug:

  $ zsh -f
  mulj% mkdir "a'b"
  mulj% touch "a'b"/{1,2,3}
  mulj% ls a\'b/*                    # press TAB with cursor immediately after the *, nothing happens
  # pressing enter correctly executes the (expanded) command:
  a'b/1  a'b/2  a'b/3
  mulj% mv a\'b ab
  mulj% ls ab/*                      # now pressing TAB with cursor immediately after the * correctly
                                            # expands ab/* to ab/1 ab/2 ab/3
  mulj% ls ab/1 ab/2 ab/3

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