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Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2012 10:31:54 -0800
From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
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On 03/12/12 09:44 AM, Ray Andrews wrote:
> Gentlemen:
>
> I'm trying to get command line completion to only offer me lines that 
> are an exact match for what has already been typed.  The number of 
> things you can set in .zshrc is a bit overwhelming. I have all this 
> just for 'completion' and I confess I have little idea what does what:
>
> zstyle ':completion:*' matcher-list 'm:{a-zA-Z}={A-Za-z}'
> zstyle ':completion:*:killall:*' command 'ps -u $USER -o cmd'
> zstyle ':completion:*' menu select
> zstyle ':completion:*' completer _complete _match _approximate
> zstyle ':completion:*:match:*' original only
> zstyle ':completion:*:approximate:*' max-errors 1 numeric
> zstyle ':completion:*:*:kill:*' menu yes select
> zstyle ':completion:*:kill:*' force-list always
> zstyle ':completion:*:cd:*' ignore-parents parent pwd
>
> Can anyone rationalize all that?  I'm going to hack away at it blindly 
> in the mean time, but some fatherly advice would be apreciated.
>
> Tx.
>
Ah! Need to bind up arrow to  history-beginning-search-backward not 
history-search-backward and all is well. Barking up the wrong tree with 
'completion'.  But geez, all this sure is hard to figure out.