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From: Adam Spiers <adam@thelonious.new.ox.ac.uk>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: various completion queries
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 08:11:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19991001081159.A2164@thelonious.new.ox.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19990930235004Z13999-12850+224@scapa.cs.ualberta.ca>

Benjamin Korvemaker (benjamin@cs.ualberta.ca) wrote:
> Ooooh.. I'm *SO* glad I asked before hacking this time. I'm much
> happier leaving the shell internals alone. The big questions now:

[...]

> 2) When there are too many completions, and a prompt like
> 
> zsh: do you wish to see all 102 possibilities? 
> 
>    shows up, can I simply get it to:
>     a) not prompt,
>     b) not list, and
>     c) maybe say "**lotsa completions - not listing**"

      d) list the completion groups and the number of matches in each,
         and then let you choose which group to complete from.

Selecting completion groups would be a nice feature in any case.

I might have a go at hacking some of these, but will probably fail and
have to wait for Sven to get back.  I'm away this w/e myself, however.


  reply	other threads:[~1999-10-01  7:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-09-30 23:50 Benjamin Korvemaker
1999-10-01  7:11 ` Adam Spiers [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-09-29 20:10 zsh and RPM: a case of study (for me) Adam Spiers
1999-09-30  9:05 ` various completion queries Peter Stephenson

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