From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25623 invoked from network); 11 Mar 1999 22:07:52 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 11 Mar 1999 22:07:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 20574 invoked by alias); 11 Mar 1999 22:07:08 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 5765 Received: (qmail 20567 invoked from network); 11 Mar 1999 22:07:06 -0000 X-Authentication-Warning: c-bart.amazon.com: schaefer set sender to schaefer@tiny.zanshin.com using -f From: Bart Schaefer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14056.15945.942483.314595@awayteam.zanshin.com> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 14:06:01 -0800 (PST) To: Peter Stephenson Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk (Zsh hackers list) Subject: Re: completion features In-Reply-To: <9903111702.AA42488@ibmth.df.unipi.it> References: <9903111702.AA42488@ibmth.df.unipi.it> X-Mailer: VM 6.68a under Emacs 20.3.5.1 Reply-To: Bart Schaefer Peter Stephenson writes: > Something like ++^D when you have correction set to 2 will allow anything > at all to be completed, assuming there was no exact match. Sven mentioned > something about this, but it looks particularly funny here. What are we > going to do? > - max no. of corrections is one *less* than length of prefix+suffix? I like this. > - assume users, unlike me, are smart enough to cope? I don't think we should assume that any users unlike you are able to cope, _especially_ if you aren't able to.