* completing from history
@ 2000-06-17 2:08 Andy Spiegl
2000-06-17 3:05 ` Bart Schaefer
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Andy Spiegl @ 2000-06-17 2:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ZSH User List; +Cc: Adam Spiers
Hi!
I am looking for a function like dabbrev-expand in Emacs, which should
search through the history text.
Here is a description of the emacs function:
| Expands to the most recent, preceding word for which this is a prefix.
|
| If the cursor has not moved from the end of the previous expansion and no
| argument is given, replace the previously-made expansion with the next
| possible expansion not yet tried.
For example:
$ echo Hi this is a test.
Hi this is a test.
$ echo t[dabbrev-key]
$ echo test
$ echo test[dabbrev-key]
$ echo this
On Adam Spier's zsh page (http://www.new.ox.ac.uk/~adam/computing/zsh/) I found
these lines in his .zsh
# {{{ Simulate my old dabbrev-expand 3.0.5 patch
zstyle ':completion:*:history-words' stop 'verbose'
zstyle ':completion:*:history-words' remove_all_dups 'yep'
# }}}
But I must admit that I don't understand what I can do with it.
(better send a copy of this mail to him, too. :-)
Thanks a lot,
Andy.
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* Re: completing from history
2000-06-17 2:08 completing from history Andy Spiegl
@ 2000-06-17 3:05 ` Bart Schaefer
2000-06-17 10:52 ` Adam Spiers
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Bart Schaefer @ 2000-06-17 3:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andy Spiegl, ZSH User List
On Jun 17, 4:08am, Andy Spiegl wrote:
} Subject: completing from history
}
} On Adam Spier's zsh page (http://www.new.ox.ac.uk/~adam/computing/zsh/) I
} found these lines in his .zsh
} # {{{ Simulate my old dabbrev-expand 3.0.5 patch
} zstyle ':completion:*:history-words' stop 'verbose'
} zstyle ':completion:*:history-words' remove_all_dups 'yep'
} # }}}
}
} But I must admit that I don't understand what I can do with it.
If you've got 3.1.9 installed, you can type <ESC /> or <ESC ,> to invoke
the _history-complete-older or _history-complete-newer bindings. The
above styles control whether the search cycles through the history and
whether it ever offers duplicate words -- except that it should be
`remove-all-dups' with hyphens, not underscores, and the value `yep'
does not work, it has to be `yes' `true' `1' or `on'. So Adam must not
be using the distributed version of _history_complete_word.
Oh, you do need to have run "compinit" to enable those bindings.
You can also add _history to your completer style like this:
zstyle ':completion:*' completer _complete _history
to have the history searched when you hit TAB and regular completion does
not find anything. (Or put it in front of _complete to have the history
tried first, but that's probably not what you want.)
--
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* Re: completing from history
2000-06-17 3:05 ` Bart Schaefer
@ 2000-06-17 10:52 ` Adam Spiers
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Adam Spiers @ 2000-06-17 10:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ZSH User List
Bart Schaefer (schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com) wrote:
> If you've got 3.1.9 installed, you can type <ESC /> or <ESC ,> to invoke
> the _history-complete-older or _history-complete-newer bindings. The
> above styles control whether the search cycles through the history and
> whether it ever offers duplicate words -- except that it should be
> `remove-all-dups' with hyphens, not underscores, and the value `yep'
> does not work, it has to be `yes' `true' `1' or `on'. So Adam must not
> be using the distributed version of _history_complete_word.
Actually I was, but I'd never realised that the changes were needed
since customisation of the function transferred to zstyle. Thanks
Bart :-)
</embarrassed>
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