From: covici@ccs.covici.com
To: Eric Cook <llua@gmx.com>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: completion problem
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 01:22:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <32392.1445145741@ccs.covici.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56226E20.4080904@gmx.com>
Eric Cook <llua@gmx.com> wrote:
> On 10/17/2015 04:27 AM, covici@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> > Hi. I really appreciate the people on this list helping me to learn zsh
> > -- I am slogging my way through the manual, but its slow going.
> >
> > I am running into a strange behavior when completing a filename -- if I
> > start with something which has no matches, and then press tab, the
> > system will try to give me substring matches and this is fine, but what
> > I would like to prevent is then it automatically completes with the
> > first match, which -- at least for me -- is usually not what I want.
> > How can I prevent this from happening?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
> >
>
> Inserting the first possible match shouldn't happen by default. If you enabled the MENU_COMPLETE option, that behavior happens.
> There may be other ways to doing that if i remember correctly.
>
setopt does not give me anything to do with completion -- does that mean
menu_complete is not enabled?
--
Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
How do
you spend it?
John Covici
covici@ccs.covici.com
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2015-10-17 8:27 covici
2015-10-17 15:49 ` Eric Cook
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