Menu-complete with tab, complete with alt-tab

Menu-complete with tab, complete with alt-tab

[Jesper Holmberg]

Hi all,

question #2 from a newly-converted bash-user:

I have used the:

setopt MENU_COMPLETE

in my .zshrc to get menu-complete bound to tab. However, it would be
very nice to have alt-tab bound to "regular" complete (preferably with
auto_list as well). Can this be done? If so, how?

TIA,

Jesper


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Re: Menu-complete with tab, complete with alt-tab

[Zefram]

Jesper Holmberg wrote:
>setopt MENU_COMPLETE
>
>in my .zshrc to get menu-complete bound to tab. However, it would be
>very nice to have alt-tab bound to "regular" complete (preferably with
>auto_list as well). Can this be done? If so, how?

MENU_COMPLETE doesn't change keybindings, it changes the behaviour of
the standard binding, which is expand-or-complete.  So what you want is,
instead of the setopt,

bindkey "^I" menu-complete
bindkey "\M-^I" expand-or-complete

-zefram

RE: Menu-complete with tab, complete with alt-tab

[Borsenkow Andrej]

> 
> MENU_COMPLETE doesn't change keybindings, it changes the behaviour of
> the standard binding, which is expand-or-complete.  So what you want
is,
> instead of the setopt,
> 
> bindkey "^I" menu-complete
> bindkey "\M-^I" expand-or-complete
>

bindkey "\M-^I" complete-word

if you are using new completion. Not necessarily but highly recommended.
And then fine tune it to do expansion (if needed).

-andrej

Re: Menu-complete with tab, complete with alt-tab

[Jesper Holmberg]

* On Thu Oct 18, Zefram wrote:
> bindkey "^I" menu-complete
> bindkey "\M-^I" expand-or-complete

* On Fri Oct 19, Borsenkow Andrej wrote:
> bindkey "\M-^I" complete-word
> 
> if you are using new completion. Not necessarily but highly recommended.
> And then fine tune it to do expansion (if needed).


Zefram's solution worked fine once I had changed the "\M-^I" to "\e^I".
The remark from Andrej is at this moment above my head, I'm afraid.
Thanks.

Jesper


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