zsh/complist and compinit

zsh/complist and compinit

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

A small question about menu completion:

This will work:

phobos% zmodload zsh/complist
phobos% autoload -U compinit 
phobos% compinit
phobos% bindkey ^[m menu-select 
phobos% echo /<M-m>

while this won't:

phobos% autoload -U compinit 
phobos% compinit
phobos% zmodload zsh/complist
phobos% bindkey ^[m menu-select 
phobos% echo /<M-m>

Does the order of compinit and complist really matters?

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Alexandre Duret-Lutz

Re: zsh/complist and compinit

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

>>> "Sven" == Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de> writes:

[...]

 Sven> Yes. compinit can override the definition for the menu-select widget
 Sven> only if the complist module is already loaded. We can't do that in
 Sven> advance.

Ah, ok.

 Sven> Of course you can add the `zle -C menu-select .menu-select
 Sven> _main_complete' by hand, but maybe we should document that
 Sven> somewhere.

At least it would have helped me to 
see a warning about the order of complist
and compinit in the doc of zsh/complist.

And by the way, since I am speaking of thing that
would help in the doc: I remember having spent
a lot of time to figure out that the group pattern
(of complist color definition) needed
group-name style to be set in order to work.

[...]

-- 
Alexandre Duret-Lutz

Re: zsh/complist and compinit

[Sven Wischnowsky]

Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:

> A small question about menu completion:
> 
> This will work:
> 
> phobos% zmodload zsh/complist
> phobos% autoload -U compinit 
> phobos% compinit
> phobos% bindkey ^[m menu-select 
> phobos% echo /<M-m>
> 
> while this won't:
> 
> phobos% autoload -U compinit 
> phobos% compinit
> phobos% zmodload zsh/complist
> phobos% bindkey ^[m menu-select 
> phobos% echo /<M-m>
> 
> Does the order of compinit and complist really matters?

Yes. compinit can override the definition for the menu-select widget
only if the complist module is already loaded. We can't do that in
advance.

Of course you can add the `zle -C menu-select .menu-select _main_complete'
by hand, but maybe we should document that somewhere.


Bye
 Sven


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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de