From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16988 invoked by alias); 17 Oct 2015 15:55:12 -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: 20783 Received: (qmail 6518 invoked from network); 17 Oct 2015 15:55:10 -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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Subject: Re: completion problem To: zsh-users@zsh.org References: <21436.1445070466@ccs.covici.com> From: Eric Cook Message-ID: <56226E20.4080904@gmx.com> Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 11:49:52 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <21436.1445070466@ccs.covici.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:48nBjbZVw5qWQdxtBlP/42+jAvUgaAnNS9hSgv0MeCxgzw7Yomb XM1TjMmB/Ry3lQyxHkbywIhUB2YlzsD/towysKNrzE0YTMTYMCcqzmDL1zrdI0NTsIYzT/8 oZxzgJ6MTnTXyJwHo0r0/XwU6BJ+r/LOksLeQh6wcWb02FlI0tGjiAQXIW9fcBJ+r4UObSn N24ik1+R4vYIMuCRIL4MQ== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:ptavIDX4FzY=:rSGT18JJNiVItu/R82TcWO 4gdwAYgAz2T2mEw3Q8KVhxv02OGJU8ptmeLAu3HdLhUG1HM8WgQDx6Ti9gFR4HU3HBnL/3QG7 M+YYgwTDTxxgFQikEh0axMV1n5OPAwP750tHRfjWKR1c+UHTvOaRCxFQGTxBWCJ1mNm44UAjX WawyEQZ5ckd15eoRq+7KWQZA+cSaZanx1xq/z5GfEnDgU2i7QUGof97xfgYTSHnE5kX/erWZq dIuxthaK3nn/8Zz57MUcceOtk0ABdsznv1v2oXg5rbbjGSxaePE9PE88O8xm+HWD90SeT9tcj /AU+yls6nAfDDLfrvzt2Wle8iZNk4/1iBJsm1vNyCe8cqieaqfgL/VqMhMokxG41NnK3CQBqB uw/LxVA06akZ1cTTiAJU+XwbD6Z7W7lEYV3V7SYC5osS6PxgUPisNeRYQDqIMCAFbYj+SKyIZ /d/s+/i8LrxwFgrJ3Xwcm4bpdrsCOfWOgGQtO+Tbn2lbAqB7Q8O9Y9+aT8qH6adtLR0LlixhA BnZfxsJ2E7X373hUeItyb6p17YvAq5uaxqUIcsce1+znedcB5+3Qmu+lMK64PuAwvRReuotqc VJdX2Zzu1OmQfY3Ad2oIkRZI127/9+iMQRygpz+hvKPyX8j9Jq0EgrN6KP23wnv4DzEumSWje h7gmGgwC9hNQtW4y4+RRnn36nPeIn4CFXCYHzOSLIFbGeC0E3JTE7kBTSqXXQsZWQwBGdVpWY 2YL1pxaYZpwbNhEaUfCODtCsnKK4FmAuvStMMvH1aBCxP76cnn1PsF1z/BpDbh3JRbQqCqbqW OqTb8V/ 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.