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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@stanford.edu>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Negative LISTMAX
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2022 18:31:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tu6a9w2q.fsf@xoc19.stanford.edu> (raw)


Hi,

The manual says about LISTMAX:

  If the value is negative, the list will be shown if it spans at most
  as many lines as given by the absolute value.

Ie if I set it to -30, it should show me lists up to 30 lines long
without prompting, and prompt for 31 lines and above.

But by experiment and by inspection:

https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh/blob/master/Src/Zle/compresult.c#L1924

   (complistmax < 0 && listdat.nlines <= -complistmax)

it appears that when LISTMAX is negative, it shows the list so long as
it is *longer* than the absolute value.

That (hiding small lists and showing big ones) doesn't seem like a
useful behaviour? If it is intentional, then it is not consistent with
the doc.

Thanks.


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