From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19997 invoked from network); 11 Jan 2005 09:40:46 -0000 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 11 Jan 2005 09:40:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 70781 invoked from network); 11 Jan 2005 09:40:40 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 11 Jan 2005 09:40:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 22399 invoked by alias); 11 Jan 2005 09:40:35 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 20672 Received: (qmail 22376 invoked from network); 11 Jan 2005 09:40:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by sunsite.dk with SMTP; 11 Jan 2005 09:40:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 67082 invoked from network); 11 Jan 2005 09:39:34 -0000 Received: from mail36.messagelabs.com (193.109.254.211) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 11 Jan 2005 09:39:26 -0000 X-VirusChecked: Checked X-Env-Sender: okiddle@yahoo.co.uk X-Msg-Ref: server-2.tower-36.messagelabs.com!1105436365!2062399!1 X-StarScan-Version: 5.4.5; banners=-,-,- X-Originating-IP: [158.234.9.163] Received: (qmail 5737 invoked from network); 11 Jan 2005 09:39:25 -0000 Received: from iris.logica.co.uk (158.234.9.163) by server-2.tower-36.messagelabs.com with SMTP; 11 Jan 2005 09:39:25 -0000 Received: from trentino.logica.co.uk ([158.234.142.59]) by iris.logica.co.uk (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian -4) with ESMTP id j0B9dOn6026667; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 09:39:24 GMT Received: from trentino.logica.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by trentino.logica.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25A342131E; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 10:39:04 +0100 (CET) X-VirusChecked: Checked X-StarScan-Version: 5.0.7; banners=.,-,- In-reply-to: From: Oliver Kiddle References: To: "Benjamin Hill (Mako)" , 289748@bugs.debian.org Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: Bug#289748: zsh: menu navigation is suboptimal Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 10:39:04 +0100 Message-ID: <24236.1105436344@trentino.logica.co.uk> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 on a.mx.sunsite.dk X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=6.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Hits: 0.0 You wrote: > The effect of this is that it can make it very hard to select the last > item in a long multi-column menu of completions. For date-based > organization of data in a directory, this can be particularly > frustrating. It is possible to get straight to the last item from the first by using the reverse-menu-complete editor command. I bind that to shift-tab: bindkey '\e[Z' reverse-menu-complete For the behaviour you want, with the up and down keys, you can try the following bindings: bindkey -M menuselect '\e[B' menu-complete bindkey -M menuselect '\e[A' reverse-menu-complete Note that your terminal may generate different escape sequences from those keys. Oliver