Re: How to accept a particular directory during directory selection for further tab completion

[zzapper <zsh@rayninfo.co.uk>]

On 22/04/2022 12:05, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> On 4/22/22, zzapper <zsh@rayninfo.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> cd aa<tab>
>>
>> aaa/ aab/ aac/
>>
>>
>> I want to accept aab/ then carry on completing
>>
>>
>> I do this by manually deleting and then retyping the trailing slash.
>>
>> But I guess there is an official way to do this?
> If you press a key bound to accept-and-infer-next-history during menu
> selection, then it will be accepted and menu selection will be
> automatically started again. There is no such key bound by default but
> you can do
> bindkey -M menuselect whateverkey accept-and-infer-next-history
>
> manpage entry:
> accept-and-infer-next-history
>   accepts  the  current match and then tries completion with menu selec‐
>   tion again;  in the case of files this allows one to select  a  direc‐
>   tory and immediately attempt to complete files in it;  if there are no
>   matches, a message is shown and one can use undo to go back to comple‐
>   tion  on  the  previous  level,  every other key leaves menu selection
>   (including the other zle functions which are otherwise special  during
>   menu selection)
>
>
> relatedly, accept-and-hold (or accept-and-menu-complete, they do the
> same thing here) is also useful:
> accept-and-hold, accept-and-menu-complete
>   accept the currently inserted match and continue selection allowing to
>   select the next match to insert into the line
>
> If you press this while several levels deep, you will insert one of
> the matches to the command line, and stay in the same directory in
> menu selection so you don't have to navigate back there to insert the
> next file you want (or slightly more optimally, copy-earlier-word and
> erase to last slash)
>
MM thanks for the detailed reply