does COMPLETE_IN_WORD work at all?

does COMPLETE_IN_WORD work at all?

[dominik.vogt]

I have wondered what the COMPLETE_IN_WORD option actually does for
years.  The man page says:

  If  unset, the cursor is set to the end of the word
  if completion is started. Otherwise it stays  there
  and completion is done from both ends.
 
And the zsh tutorial states in section 6.2.4:

  For example if you typed 'Mafile', went back over the 'f' and
  hit tab, the shell would complete 'Makefile'.

But it never works when I try it:

  $ zsh --version
  zsh 4.0.4 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)

  $ emulate -R zsh
  $ setopt completeinword

  $ mkdir test
  $ cd test
  $ touch Mail Makefile
  $ ls Mafile<Crsr-Left><Crsr-Left><Crsr-Left><Crsr-Left>

Now I have the cursor over the 'f'.  When I press <tab> once, zsh
presents me a menu of possible completions for 'Ma', i.e. 'Mail'
and 'Makefile'.  After pressing tab again, it prepends 'Mail' to
'file' and after pressing tab again I get 'Mailfilefile'.

So, does the COMPLETE_IN_WORD option work at all?  It might be
something in my config, but then the 'emulate -R zsh' should have
reset all options to the default.

Bye

Dominik ^_^  ^_^

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Dominik Vogt, dominik.vogt@gmx.de
Reply-To: dominik.vogt@gmx.de

Re: does COMPLETE_IN_WORD work at all?

[Bart Schaefer]

On Sep 14,  2:21am, dominik.vogt@gmx.de wrote:
} Subject: does COMPLETE_IN_WORD work at all?
}
} I have wondered what the COMPLETE_IN_WORD option actually does for
} years.
} 
} But it never works when I try it:

That's probably because you have TAB bound to expand-or-complete-prefix.
The examples assume you have it bound to either expand-or-complete or
simply complete-word.

Using expand-or-complete-prefix explicitly neutralizes COMPLETE_IN_WORD,
because it forces completion to ignore everything after the cursor.

Only setopts are reset by "emulate -R", not keybindings or variables.