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Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 17:48:12 -0400
From: Hans Dieter Pearcey <hdp@pobox.com>
To: "joel w. reed" <jreed@ddiworld.com>
Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: [PATCH]always show complete list
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On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 02:42:57PM -0400, joel w. reed wrote:
> this patch adds a config option LISTALWAYS that if set, makes 
> zsh-4.0.4 always show the complete list if the completion 
> resulted in only a partial completion (to help the user decide
> what to type next w/o the need for another TAB).
> 
> lets say i have a directory with 2 entries:
> 
>   opal-3.0.4
>   opal-4.0 
> 
> my patched zsh will show the following after i type 'cd oTAB'
> 
> (%:~/src) cd opal-    
> opal-3.0.4/  opal-4.0/

zsh already does this.

see AUTO_LIST (which is on by default) and LIST_AMBIGUOUS in zshoptions.

Specifically, if you setopt NO_LIST_AMBIGUOUS, the above behavior is
observed.

hdp.