From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18783 invoked from network); 1 Oct 1999 07:12:18 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 1 Oct 1999 07:12:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 11415 invoked by alias); 1 Oct 1999 07:12:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 2642 Received: (qmail 11406 invoked from network); 1 Oct 1999 07:11:59 -0000 Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 08:11:59 +0100 From: Adam Spiers To: zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: Re: various completion queries Message-ID: <19991001081159.A2164@thelonious.new.ox.ac.uk> Reply-To: Adam Spiers Mail-Followup-To: zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk References: <19990930235004Z13999-12850+224@scapa.cs.ualberta.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <19990930235004Z13999-12850+224@scapa.cs.ualberta.ca> X-URL: http://www.new.ox.ac.uk/~adam/ X-OS: Linux 2.2.9 i686 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.