Re: PATCH: hidden matches in menu-select

["Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com>]

On Dec 8, 10:08am, Sven Wischnowsky wrote:
} Subject: PATCH: hidden matches in menu-select
}
} +Normally, the completion code may decide to not show of the matches in 
                                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
} +the list. These hidden matches are either matches for which the

Once I started fixing that sentence, I just couldn't stop myself.

(Maybe we should change the color-cap to "du"plicate instead of "mu"ltiple?
Neither the original paragraph nor this rewite explains the derivation of
"mu".)

Index: Doc/Zsh/mod_complist.yo
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@@ -154,17 +154,17 @@
 neither tt(ZLS_COLORS) nor tt(ZLS_COLOURS) is set, the same terminal
 control sequence as for the `tt(%S)' escape in prompts is used.
 
-Normally, the completion code may decide to not show of the matches in 
-the list. These hidden matches are either matches for which the
+The completion code sometimes decides not to show all of the matches
+in the list. These hidden matches are either matches for which the
 completion function which added them explicitly requested that they
-don't appear in the list (using the tt(-n) option of the tt(compadd)
-builtin command) or they are matches which show the the same string in 
-the list (because they differ only in things like prefixes or suffixes 
-that are never listed). In the list used for menu-selection, however,
-even these matches will be shown so that it is possible to select
-them. To be able to highlight such matches the tt(hi) and tt(mu)
-capabilities in the tt(ZLS_COLORS) and tt(ZLS_COLOURS) parameters are
-supported for hidden matches of the first and second kind, respectively.
+not appear in the list (using the tt(-n) option of the tt(compadd)
+builtin command) or they are matches which duplicate a string already
+in the list (because they differ only in things like prefixes or
+suffixes that are not displayed). In the list used for menu-selection,
+however, even these matches are shown so that it is possible to select
+them. To highlight such matches the tt(hi) and tt(mu) capabilities in
+the tt(ZLS_COLORS) and tt(ZLS_COLOURS) parameters are supported for
+hidden matches of the first and second kind, respectively.
 
 Selecting matches is done by moving the mark around using the zle movement
 functions. The zle functions tt(send-break) and tt(accept-line) can be used

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