2010/8/17 Matthias Brandt <mb@blau.de>

> Hi,
>
> I'm just switching from bash to zsh and what i'm really confused about is
> the autocompletition. Can i tell zsh *not* to complete the whole first menu
> entry automatically?
>
> Something like this:
>
> $ ls
> aaaabcdefg  aabg  aabcdefg
> $ 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?
>
> Thank you,
> Matthias
>

I'm not sure I understand your problem, but try "unsetopt automenu".