I found a partial solution by adding the _prefix completer (along with the
complete_in_word option). However, as you said, the complete_in_word option
also matches the trailing part when using menu-complete/select, which I
don't prefer. It does work when the trailing part doesn't match anything
though.


On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 9:53 PM Alan <8fvebtoeq87@gmail.com> wrote:

> I see, yes, you're correct.
>
> I like the expand-or-complete-prefix widget and have it bound to tab. Is
> there a way to make menu-complete/menu-select behave like
> expand-or-complete-prefix (i.e. complete just what is to the left of the
> cursor and ignore anything to the right, as shown in my first email)?
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 9:11 PM Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 4:58 PM Alan <8fvebtoeq87@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > I have COMPLETE_IN_WORD set, but menu-select doesn't respect it.
>>
>> You're misunderstanding what COMPLETE_IN_WORD does.  It tries to match
>> both the leading and trailing parts.
>>
>> What you want is to invoke the expand-or-complete-prefix widget
>> instead of the default expand-or-complete.
>>
>