From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4647 invoked from network); 24 Oct 2000 15:28:47 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 24 Oct 2000 15:28:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 4270 invoked by alias); 24 Oct 2000 15:28:39 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 13076 Received: (qmail 4263 invoked from network); 24 Oct 2000 15:28:39 -0000 X-Envelope-Sender-Is: Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru (at relayer david.siemens.de) From: "Andrej Borsenkow" To: "Bart Schaefer" , "E. Jay Berkenbilt" Cc: Subject: RE: still confused about completion and matching Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 19:28:31 +0400 Message-ID: <000f01c03dcf$10c403e0$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal In-reply-to: <1001024151504.ZM12258@candle.brasslantern.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 > > 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