completion position

completion position

[Mglcel]

Hi,

I can't find how to move the completion cursor position :
i've always that :

shell> cd /usr/<tab>				_
X11R6/            i486-linuxlibc1/  local/            spool/
bin/              include/          man/              src/
doc/              info/             sbin/
games/            lib/              share/

and if i press again <tab> :

shell> cd /usr/					X11R6/
X11R6/            i486-linuxlibc1/  local/            spool/
bin/              include/          man/              src/
doc/              info/             sbin/
games/            lib/              share/

this is not a real problem but where it is so funny it's when i try 
to backward on history with the up cursor key:

shell> cd /usr/					man tidy

the commands have wrote at the completion position and not at the
end of the shell prompt !

I can't find how to modify that...

notify I use screen (Screen version 3.09.05 (FAU) 1-Sep-99)

mglcel@amnesty mglcel-> export | grep TERM
TERM=screen
TERMCAP='SC|screen|VT 100/ANSI X3.64 virtual terminal:\

the zsh version is the 3.1.6 compiled but the actual zsh .deb version
make me the same thing.

with a 'setopt SINGLE_LINE_ZLE' the completion cursor position is
right a the end of the actual word to be completed but i've always
a problem with this backward in my history.

mglcel@amnesty setup-> setopt
autocd
noautoparamslash
autopushd
autoresume
nobgnice
cdablevars
noclobber
correct
correctall
extendedglob
globdots
histignoredups
interactive
longlistjobs
mailwarning
monitor
pushdminus
pushdsilent
pushdtohome
rcquotes
recexact
shinstdin
zle

but if i remove these options :

setopt   notify globdots correct pushdtohome cdablevars autolist
setopt   correctall autocd recexact longlistjobs
setopt   autoresume histignoredups pushdsilent noclobber
setopt   autopushd pushdminus extendedglob rcquotes mailwarning
unsetopt bgnice autoparamslash

the problem is always here.

Thx for some answers or indications.

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Re: completion position

[Christoph Lange]

> I can't find how to move the completion cursor position :
> i've always that :
> 
> shell> cd /usr/<tab>				_
> X11R6/            i486-linuxlibc1/  local/            spool/
> bin/              include/          man/              src/
> doc/              info/             sbin/
> games/            lib/              share/

I had a similar problem when I had some escape codes in my prompt, which set
the xterm title bar. I think zsh calculates the cursor position depending on
the length of the prompt. Of course, zsh did not understand that a certain
part of the text actually appeared in the title bar and not in the command
line prompt and therefore assumed a wrong length andq set the cursor to a
wrong position.

Christoph

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Re: completion position

[Danny Dulai]

On 07/15/00, Christoph Lange said:
>> I can't find how to move the completion cursor position :
>> i've always that :
>> 
>> shell> cd /usr/<tab>				_
>> X11R6/            i486-linuxlibc1/  local/            spool/
>> bin/              include/          man/              src/
>> doc/              info/             sbin/
>> games/            lib/              share/
>
>I had a similar problem when I had some escape codes in my prompt, which set
>the xterm title bar. I think zsh calculates the cursor position depending on
>the length of the prompt. Of course, zsh did not understand that a certain
>part of the text actually appeared in the title bar and not in the command
>line prompt and therefore assumed a wrong length andq set the cursor to a
>wrong position.

from the zshall manpage, under PROMPT EXPANSION:

       %{...%}
              Include a string as a literal escape sequence.  The
              string within the braces should not change the cur-
              sor position.  Brace pairs can nest.

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