> The descriptions here are showing you every place from which a > completion string was gathered, but then all the completions are > lumped together at the end. (That is, you get all the descriptions, > and then all the completions.) If you actually want the completion > strings to appear immediately after each description, you have to add > > zstyle ':completion:*' group-name "" > My bad. I used to have this on, but later turned it off in an attempt to minimize the amount of configuration changes and forgot about it. I think it's time to close this thread. The analysis of Ctrl-X ? logs would take (I guess) a few days of studying the inner workings of the completion system and I cannot afford such a time allocation at the moment. I'd like to thank all who answered and namely Bart for the advice and patience. Peter