From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
To: gi1242+zsh@gmail.com
Cc: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Use external tool if there are a large number of completions
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 00:14:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200914001407.3620aa3f@tarpaulin.shahaf.local2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200913222122.GA4031@andrew.cmu.edu>
gi1242+zsh@gmail.com wrote on Sun, 13 Sep 2020 18:21 -0400:
> I was wondering if it's possible to use an external tool if there are
> more than a certain number of completions. Sometimes there are thousands
> of completions (eg apt install), and the keyboard interface isn't too
> efficient. However, things like "rofi" handle this very nicely. So is it
> possible to invoke a custom command (e.g. rofi -dmenu) if there is more
> than (say) half a screenful of completions?
[ For context, rofi(1) is a GUI tool for selecting one text line out of a list. ]
You might be able to engineer something using «compadd -O».
There's also <https://github.com/Valodim/zsh-capture-completion>,
though I haven't used it myself.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-14 0:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-13 22:21 gi1242+zsh
2020-09-14 0:14 ` Daniel Shahaf [this message]
2020-09-14 12:29 ` Oliver Kiddle
2020-09-14 20:32 ` Bart Schaefer
2020-09-15 1:16 ` gi1242+zsh
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