From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23562 invoked by alias); 18 Oct 2015 05:22:28 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Users List List-Post: List-Help: X-Seq: 20787 Received: (qmail 21669 invoked from network); 18 Oct 2015 05:22:27 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: covici@ccs.covici.com To: Eric Cook cc: zsh-users@zsh.org Subject: Re: completion problem In-reply-to: <56226E20.4080904@gmx.com> References: <21436.1445070466@ccs.covici.com> <56226E20.4080904@gmx.com> Comments: In-reply-to Eric Cook message dated "Sat, 17 Oct 2015 11:49:52 -0400." X-Mailer: MH-E 8.5; nmh 1.6; GNU Emacs 23.4.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <32391.1445145741.1@ccs.covici.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 01:22:21 -0400 Message-ID: <32392.1445145741@ccs.covici.com> X-SpamH-OriginatingIP: 70.109.53.110 X-SpamH-Filter: d-out-001.smtp25.com-t9I5MLns013882 Eric Cook 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 z= sh > > -- 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 wha= t > > 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 e= nabled 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