From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5968 invoked from network); 8 Nov 2001 11:42:32 -0000 Received: from ns2.primenet.com.au (HELO primenet.com.au) (?UU6J4zDjW9TItU6nPhKlQVlLmRtVmtOG?@203.24.36.3) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 8 Nov 2001 11:42:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 3279 invoked from network); 8 Nov 2001 11:42:31 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by proxy.melb.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 8 Nov 2001 11:42:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 7527 invoked by alias); 8 Nov 2001 11:42:17 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 4460 Received: (qmail 7516 invoked from network); 8 Nov 2001 11:42:16 -0000 From: Dan Kenigsberg Message-Id: <200111081144.NAA16941@csd.cs.technion.ac.il> Subject: Re: newbie's question about completion To: okiddle@yahoo.co.uk (Oliver Kiddle) Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 13:44:11 +0200 (IST) Cc: zsh-users@sunsite.dk In-Reply-To: <3BEA6619.567EA058@yahoo.co.uk> from "Oliver Kiddle" at Nov 08, 2001 11:01:45 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Dan Kenigsberg wrote: > > > > Assume I have an executable in my $PATH named `armadillo'. > > > > In versions 2.5.0 and 3.0.8 I only had to type ar to execute it. > > Since ar(1) is in my path, too, zsh would beep and let me choose between ar and > > armadillo. > > > > However in versions 3.1.9 and 4.0.2, ar expands to `ar ', and does not give > > me the opportunity to choose what I wanted. I find this very annoying. > > > > Browsing the man and searching the web for how to revert to the old behavior > > did not produce the answer. Frankly, I don't know waht to search for.. > > Try: unsetopt recexact > Thanks Will and Oliver. That's exactly the answer to my anguish. Dan.