Reverse menu-complete?

Reverse menu-complete?

[Hrvoje Niksic]

Is there a way to go one menu-completion backward? E.g. if I set
automenu (or menucomplete), pressing TAB once expands as much as
possible, whereas each TAB afterwards will cycle through the possible
completions. I would like to have a binding (e.g. bound to M-TAB,
which is now unused) to cycle backwards. Is there such a binding
already?

jagor$ cat 
           ^ pressing TAB here I cycle through the directory one-way
             only. Can I get the other way?

I know this can also be achieved by pressing C-_ (undo), but it
doesn't work well when I press TAB again, since it will no longer
cycle, it just accepts the completion at point.

jagor$ cat watch.c
                  ^ After pressing TAB a couple of times, I have
                    reached watch.c. I can cycle backwards using
                    C-_, but cycling forward again doesn't work.

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Re: Reverse menu-complete?

[Zefram]

>Is there a way to go one menu-completion backward? E.g. if I set
>automenu (or menucomplete), pressing TAB once expands as much as
>possible, whereas each TAB afterwards will cycle through the possible
>completions. I would like to have a binding (e.g. bound to M-TAB,
>which is now unused) to cycle backwards. Is there such a binding
>already?

There's reverse-menu-complete.

-zefram

Re: Reverse menu-complete?

[Hrvoje Niksic]

Zefram (A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk) wrote:
> There's reverse-menu-complete.

Thanks. It works perfectly. Why isn't it bound by default, e.g. to
\e\t?

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Re: Reverse menu-complete?

[Barton E. Schaefer]

On Jun 12,  9:51pm, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
} Subject: Reverse menu-complete?
}
} Is there a way to go one menu-completion backward?

Yeah; I use this:

setopt automenu
bindkey '^X\t' accept-and-menu-complete
bindkey '\e\t' reverse-menu-complete

TAB goes forward; if I accidentally tab too often, ESC TAB backs up
without screwing up the cycle, and then I can C-x TAB to grab that
completion and continue the cycle where I left off.


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