Re: Space in interactive menu select

[Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 8:25 AM, Thayne <astrothayne@gmail.com> wrote:
> With the following (minimal) .zshrc:
>
> zmodload zsh/complist
> zstyle ':completion:*' menu select yes interactive
> autoload -Uz compinit
> compinit
>
> If I finish the word that is being completed myself, then press space, it
> starts completing for the next word, but if I then accept a completion for
> that word, it then replaces *both* words that I typed during completion.
> https://asciinema.org/a/189304 shows an illustration of this.
>
> This is very unexpected behaviour. I would expect pressing a space during
> interactive menu selection to stop the current completion and insert a
> space after what has been typed so far. Or at least that is how I would
> like it to happen, but as far as I can tell there isn't a way to accomplish
> that.
>
> I have tried using `bindkey -M menuselect ' ' self-insert`, but that
> doesn't make a difference. `bindkey -M menuselect ' ' accept-line` makes it
> so a space is treated the same as enter, which is less surprising, but is a
> little annoying if I start the completion, realize that the completion
> doesn't have the option I actually need, type the real option, then press
> space.
>
> I've also tried creating a custom zle widget that calls `zle send-break`
> and then `zle self-insert`. And bind space to that widget, but that doesn't
> work either (it looks like it acts the same as `accept-line`.
>
> This seems like a bug to me.

You can't really just treat the space key as a special case here,
consider completion inside a quote which won't end the current word.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson