Re: Bash-like autocompletition

[Matthias Brandt <mb@blau.de>]

Am 08/17/2010 09:49 AM, schrieb Frank Terbeck:
> Matthias Brandt wrote:
>> Am 08/17/2010 08:45 AM, schrieb Frank Terbeck:
>>> Matthias Brandt wrote:
>>>> $ ls a<tab>                          #i want the cli only complete
>>>> $ ls aa                            #until the first ambigous character.
>>>> aaaabcdefg  aabg        aabcdefg   #<- the menu will be shown
>>>> Any idea how to configure this?
> [...]
>>>      <http://zshwiki.org/home/examples/compquickstart>
> [...]
>> Sorry, but this doesn't help me. I've allready read some tutorials
>> about compsys, but I don't get any solution for my specific problem:
>> zsh should only complete until the first ambigous character.
>
> Well, you have to explain where your problem is with that setup...
>
> What that setup does this:
>
>      + Complete until the first non-ambiguous character, if possible.
>      + Show a list of possible completions, if there are only ambiguous
>        completions left and tab is pressed.
>      + If the list from the previous step is being displayed and tab is
>        hit again, enter that list as a browsable menu with a cursor you
>        can control with the keyboard's cursor keys.
>
> Point one and two sound a *lot* you're asking for. Point three is a
> little extra sugar, a lot of people like. You may want the menu to be
> shown right away after the first tab when all non-ambiguous characters
> have been inserted. If so, that's wasn't entirely clear to me.
I'm sorry. I've just tried the pastie and it didn't work for me. So now 
I've tried it on a clean zsh installation et voila: it works like a 
charm. Obviously i've got some other configuration which mixes it up...

Thank you for your patient support!

Matthias