Re: Regression: broken completion on modification time

[Dima Kogan <dima@secretsauce.net>]

Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> writes:

> On Jun 12,  1:32pm, Dima Kogan wrote:
> }
> } In zsh 5.0.5 (Debian version 5.0.5-2) I can type in an interactive
> } shell:
> } 
> }   $ ls *(m
> } 
> } Then I press TAB to get the different ways to specify modification time,
> } 
> } [...]  If I update the zsh package, or use the zsh from git
> } and do the same thing, I get no message, and instead the completion
> } cycles between various integers.
>
> This is from zsh-workers/35718 and the behavior you are seeing assumes
> that you have menu-selection enabled (which will cause a much more
> extensive set of completion responses to appear in a calendar format).
> There was some controversy about this when it was added and discussion
> of how to keep it from kicking in if menu selection was NOT enabled,
> but I guess it never got fully resolved.
>
> In the meantime, to mostly get your old behavior back:
>
>     zstyle ':completion:*:dates' max-matches-length 0

That's it! Thanks for replying so quickly.

dima