completing arguments by looking in arguments history

completing arguments by looking in arguments history

[xavier]

Hi,

I'm looking to reproduce a useful bash feature :

with alt-tab, (once you removed the mapping from your window manager)
 you can complete old args

ex :

dig @<tab> will complete using all arguments in history starting with @

I find it usefull.

is there a way to do it with zsh ?

thanks

-- 
xavier

Re: completing arguments by looking in arguments history

[Bart Schaefer]

On Mar 22, 11:21am, xavier wrote:
} 
} dig @<tab> will complete using all arguments in history starting with @
} 
} is there a way to do it with zsh ?

Yes, if you're using compsys with the emacs-style bindings, which it
sounds as if you are, try typing Escape followed by either a comma or
a slash.

Look for _history_complete_word in "man zshcompsys".

(If you're using vi bindings you'll probably have to set up your own 
bindkey for this.)

Re: completing arguments by looking in arguments history

[xavier]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 02:55:43AM +0000, Bart Schaefer wrote:
|On Mar 22, 11:21am, xavier wrote:
|} 
|} dig @<tab> will complete using all arguments in history starting with @
|} 
|} is there a way to do it with zsh ?
|
|Yes, if you're using compsys with the emacs-style bindings, which it
|sounds as if you are, try typing Escape followed by either a comma or
|a slash.


aahh thanks many times  !! meta-, and meta-/ works wonderfuly :-)



-- 
xavier