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On 04/24/2014 09:02 AM, Yuri D'Elia wrote:
> On 04/24/2014 04:34 PM, Ray Andrews wrote:
> The problem is that it is, indeed, quite complicated. It's not exactly 
> what I would recommend to somebody that is starting from zero with zsh. 

Well, then I agree. At least myself, I stayed away from it when I saw 
how fancy it tried to be.

> Debugging slow completion or any issue you have with it will 
> immediately be too hard for somebody who never tweaked zsh before, 
> because there's no single "item" you can search for in the manual 
> page. For instance, I severely dislike when completion tries to 
> outsmart me, or behaves in non-predictive ways. 
Right. The first thing software of any kind should be is predictable.