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Error with counsel-locate when using zsh as login shell #194

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makkus opened this issue Aug 7, 2015 · 2 comments
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Error with counsel-locate when using zsh as login shell #194

makkus opened this issue Aug 7, 2015 · 2 comments

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makkus commented Aug 7, 2015

As per title, counsel-locate prints "Error" as soon as a regex is created. I.e. "abc" as input is fine, but not "abc abc".
I think it's because of how one needs to escape most characters in zsh ('.', '*', '?', ...), and those are used in counsel-locate when a regex is created, in addition to '(' and ')', which are escaped as far as I could see.
Might be overlooking something here, but wouldn't just enclose the regex between ' be enough?

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abo-abo commented Aug 7, 2015

Here's the shell command that is run for abc abc:

locate -i --regex \\(abc\\).*?\\(abc\\)

I've now changed it to:

locate -i --regex '(abc).*?(abc)'

Please check if it works fine for you.

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makkus commented Aug 8, 2015

Yup, that works. First one errors out with:

$ locate -i --regex (abc).*?(abc)
zsh: number expected

Second one returns some results.

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