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From: "Andrej Borsenkow" <Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru>
To: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com>,
	"E. Jay Berkenbilt" <ejb@ql.org>
Cc: <zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk>
Subject: RE: still confused about completion and matching
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 19:28:31 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000f01c03dcf$10c403e0$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1001024151504.ZM12258@candle.brasslantern.com>

>
> insert-unambiguous
>      This is used by the _match and _approximate completer functions,
>      where the possible completions may not have a common prefix so
>      that menu completion is often the most useful may of choosing
>      completions.  If the style is set to `true', the completer will
>      start menu completion only if no unambiguous string could be
>      generated that is at least as long as the original string typed by

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>      the user.
        ^^^^^^^^^^

That is the problem. It means, that if you have long pattern that results in
short match, menu completion is started.

I was never happy about it as well. But I switched to menu selection some time
ago :-)

-andrej


  reply	other threads:[~2000-10-24 15:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-10-24  7:44 Sven Wischnowsky
2000-10-24 15:00 ` E. Jay Berkenbilt
2000-10-24 15:15   ` Bart Schaefer
2000-10-24 15:28     ` Andrej Borsenkow [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-10-25  7:50 Sven Wischnowsky
2000-11-06 15:34 ` E. Jay Berkenbilt
2000-10-25  7:12 Sven Wischnowsky
2000-10-25  7:41 ` Andrej Borsenkow
2000-10-23 13:20 Sven Wischnowsky
2000-10-19  9:11 Sven Wischnowsky
2000-10-20 16:38 ` E. Jay Berkenbilt
2000-10-20 16:57   ` Andrej Borsenkow
2000-10-20 20:45     ` E. Jay Berkenbilt
2000-10-23  7:15       ` Andrej Borsenkow
2000-10-23 13:11         ` E. Jay Berkenbilt
2000-10-16  8:05 Sven Wischnowsky
2000-10-17 19:30 ` E. Jay Berkenbilt
2000-10-13 11:03 Sven Wischnowsky
2000-10-12 19:56 E. Jay Berkenbilt
2000-10-12 20:32 ` E. Jay Berkenbilt
2000-10-16  5:01 ` Bart Schaefer

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