Re: Bug#289748: zsh: menu navigation is suboptimal

Re: Bug#289748: zsh: menu navigation is suboptimal

[Oliver Kiddle]

You wrote:
> The effect of this is that it can make it very hard to select the last
> item in a long multi-column menu of completions. For date-based
> organization of data in a directory, this can be particularly
> frustrating.

It is possible to get straight to the last item from the first by using
the reverse-menu-complete editor command. I bind that to shift-tab:

  bindkey '\e[Z' reverse-menu-complete

For the behaviour you want, with the up and down keys, you can try the
following bindings:

  bindkey -M menuselect '\e[B' menu-complete
  bindkey -M menuselect '\e[A' reverse-menu-complete

Note that your terminal may generate different escape sequences from
those keys.

Oliver

Re: Bug#289748: zsh: menu navigation is suboptimal

[Geoff Wing]

Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk> typed:
: It is possible to get straight to the last item from the first by using
: the reverse-menu-complete editor command. I bind that to shift-tab:

What's wrong with left-arrow then up-arrow combo in the basic config (says
someone who doesn't use menu_complete (or is it auto_menu?) or
always_last_prompt options)?

Regards,
Geoff