From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Cc: Hong Xu <hong@topbug.net>
Subject: Re: Feature request: readline's completion-prefix-display-length option
Date: Sun, 15 May 2016 04:50:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7aYcxp73F2koe1nVBRMR8jwJ5eYLAyMi2_35FEX9=dJXw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5738124C.7020705@topbug.net>
On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 11:08 PM, Hong Xu <hong@topbug.net> wrote:
>
> I believe that readline's completion-prefix-display-length is a great
> option to have for zle. This option enables the common part of long
> completions to be represented by ellipsis, so the options in the
> completion list would not be too long in many cases.
There might be a deviously clever way to do this with the list-colors
style, similar to the way that show-ambiguity is implemented.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-15 11:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-15 6:08 Hong Xu
2016-05-15 11:50 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2016-05-19 21:14 ` Daniel Shahaf
2016-06-02 13:28 ` Daniel Shahaf
2016-05-19 21:14 ` Daniel Shahaf
2016-06-02 5:42 ` Bart Schaefer
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