Cannot get incremental-complete-word to work

Cannot get incremental-complete-word to work

[Andrej Borsenkow]

bor@itsrm2:~%> zsh -f
itsrm2% fpath=($fpath ~/.zsh.d/functions)
itsrm2% autoload compinit; compinit
itsrm2% autoload incremental-complete-word 
itsrm2% zle -N incremental-complete-word 
itsrm2% bindkey -e
itsrm2% bindkey '\C-xI' incremental-complete-word 
itsrm2% ls ^xI

itsrm2% ls (press ``t'')
incremental completion...

itsrm2% ls t(press RETURN)
incremental completion...

tsrm2% ls tkey=
files: _
Brodsky       addrbook.d    fnt           observe       tmp
FM2000        bin           foo           save          xxxx
ICONS         dead.letter   itsrm2        src           
INBOX         dikz          mail          test          

this is with all patches up to including 7042 (I hope :-)

/andrej

RE: Cannot get incremental-complete-word to work

[Andrej Borsenkow]

>
> itsrm2% ls t
> incremental completion...
>

O.K., I figured this out. Default prompt does not include %u. I think, if i-c-w
selects complete-word, it would better set prefix (unless defined) to anything
with %u.

Related problem is, that in the above case %u would still be empty because ``t''
is the longest unambigous prefix. Again in this case some feedback would really
be nice (without it you cannot tell, if word typed so far is still ambiguous or
simply does not match anything)

> tsrm2% ls tkey=

My fault, sorry. Shame on me :-(

/andrej