From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7019 invoked from network); 20 Jan 2003 14:46:41 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 20 Jan 2003 14:46:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 19303 invoked by alias); 20 Jan 2003 14:46:16 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 5772 Received: (qmail 19290 invoked from network); 20 Jan 2003 14:46:16 -0000 X-MessageWall-Score: 0 (sunsite.dk) From: Sven Wischnowsky MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15916.3294.277354.209012@wischnow.berkom.de> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 15:51:10 +0100 To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk Subject: RE: more interactive menu completion In-Reply-To: <6134254DE87BD411908B00A0C99B044F03A0B5E6@mowd019a.mow.siemens.ru> References: <20030119233436.51078.qmail@web12305.mail.yahoo.com> <6134254DE87BD411908B00A0C99B044F03A0B5E6@mowd019a.mow.siemens.ru> X-Mailer: VM 7.03 under 21.5 (patch 5) "beets" XEmacs Lucid Borzenkov Andrey wrote: > > > > I'm using menu completion now, and I absolutely love > > it. However I was just thinking that all of my > > keyboard keys are unmapped during menu completion, so > > wouldn't it be nice if I could press 'abc', and have > > the selection go to the first file starting with an > > 'abc'? This is very much like the way modern file > > managers work (e.g. Explorer, Konqueror, etc), except > > they only match the first letter. > > > > It would be great if this kind of widget can be > > refined to do substring matching as well. Does this > > kind of completion scheme currently exist for Zsh? > > > > There is incremental-complete-word widget that does what you want. I do not > know if it is widely used, so your comments would be welcome. In the development version, there is also incremental mode of menu selection, see the docs for the `complist' module and for the new completion system (under the `menu' style). Bye Sven -- Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@berkom.de