From: Duncan Sargeant <dunc@tartarus.uwa.edu.au>
To: schaefer@nbn.com
Cc: dunc@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au, zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: bash like tab tab 's
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 17:31:20 +0800 (WST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199608270931.RAA31201@tartarus.uwa.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <960827022316.ZM6665@candle.brasslantern.com> from "Bart Schaefer" at Aug 27, 96 02:23:16 am
> } Subject: bash like tab tab 's
> }
> } In the brief period between installing Linux and changing the default
> } shell to zsh, I noticed bash's tab tab feature, where pressing tab once
> } will try to complete a word as per usual, but if it can't, pressing it a
> } second time will give a list of commands.
>
> I think you want
>
> setopt autolist listambiguous
>
that's does a list after the first TAB. I was interested in having it
complete as far as possible first, beep, then (after second TAB) list.
> While we're on the subject of just-noticed features in other shells, I
> just noticed that tcsh's `complete' command can take a glob pattern for
> the name of the command(s) to which the programmable completion should
> apply. Does anybody think this would be useful enough to add to zsh?
sounds groovy.
Duncan Sargeant, http://www.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/~dunc/
"All extremists should be shot."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-08-27 10:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-08-27 8:34 Duncan Sargeant
1996-08-27 9:23 ` Bart Schaefer
1996-08-27 9:31 ` Duncan Sargeant [this message]
1996-08-27 9:48 ` Bart Schaefer
1996-08-27 18:53 ` Zefram
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