thanks for the advices
I found that setting LISTMAX=100000 doesn't get me the interactive menu
completion, just the (normal?) menu completion without the "do you wish to
see" question
what I mean is (sorry if I am not using the correct terminology)
grep -<tab>
shows a list of options, but does not allow me to move through the options
with the arrows
if I do

compdef _gnu_generic grep

grep -<tab> gives me a menu like I want

in my .zshrc I have

zstyle ':completion:*' menu select=2

and nothing more specific to disable it just for grep
if I don't redefine the completer with compdef the default completer for
grep is _grep
so, is it possibile that the issue is that _grep doesn't do interactive
menu completion? is this something demanded to the completer to decide?

Pier Paolo Grassi



Il giorno dom 5 apr 2020 alle ore 21:29 Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
ha scritto:

> On 4/5/20, Pier Paolo Grassi <pierpaolog@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello, when trying to complete with interactive menu completion some
> > command with many options, eg grep, I get a message like
> > zsh: do you wish to see all 156 possibilities (41 lines)?
> > is it possibile to disable it and just see the interactive menu?
>
> You can set LISTMAX=100000 or so to increase the default limit (which
> is 100, I think). There is some other way to disable it too, because I
> don't get the prompt and haven't set LISTMAX, but I'm not sure how I
> did it :).
>
> --
> Mikael Magnusson
>