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-rw-r--r--Completion/Unix/Command/_mount23
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Completion/Unix/Command/_mount b/Completion/Unix/Command/_mount
index 6333c3d5b..417af2502 100644
--- a/Completion/Unix/Command/_mount
+++ b/Completion/Unix/Command/_mount
@@ -867,8 +867,27 @@ udevordir)
     ;;
   esac
 
-  dpath_tmp=( "${(@M)dev_tmp:#/*}" )
-  dev_tmp=( "${(@)dev_tmp:#/*}" )
+  # "Mummy, why is mount point matching full of squiggles?"
+  #
+  # "Well, dear, the clever people who wrote Linux decided that some
+  # funny characters that might confuse programmes looking at the names
+  # would be encoded as octal escapes, like for example \040 for space.
+  # The clever people who wrote zsh decided that nothing would
+  # ever be quite as simple as it should be, so to substitute octal
+  # escapes everywhere in a string, even though the shell understands
+  # them natively in print escapes, needs some hackery where you match
+  # the octal number using the numeric closure syntax introduced after
+  # 4.3.4, then reinput the number in a standard math mode format as 8#OOO,
+  # and turn that into a character using the (#) parameter flag."
+  #
+  # "Mummy, why is nothing ever quite as simple as it should be?"
+  #
+  # "Well, dear, if it was then the clever people who write programmes would
+  # have been replaced by intelligent monkeys and then they'd be out
+  # of working roaming the streets, and we wouldn't want that, would we?"
+  mp_tmp=("${(@q)mp_tmp//(#m)\\[0-7](#c3)/${(#)$(( 8#${MATCH[2,-1]} ))}}")
+  dpath_tmp=( "${(@Mq)dev_tmp:#/*}" )
+  dev_tmp=( "${(@q)dev_tmp:#/*}" )
 
   _alternative \
     'device-labels:device label:compadd -a dev_tmp' \