Re: Completing strings from history?

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

> Typing `foo<ESC-/>' (bound to _history-complete-older) finds the most recent
> word in the history beginning "foo".  Typing <ESC-/> again appears to do
> nothing.
> 
> Is it possible to set things up so that repeatedly typing <ESC-/> cycles back
> through all matches in the history?  (ala Emacs' dabbrev-expand)

You can do this by setting the `stop' style, which is so called because it
stops when it has reached as far back into the history as it can (unlike
normal menu completion which would continue cycling).

  zstyle ':completion:history-words:*' stop 1

You should also be able to turn on menu completion just in this context,
but I couldn't get that to work with a brief try, for some reason.

What doesn't work which probably ought to is that if you type `\e,'
(_history-complete-newer) it should cycle back in the other direction.
Probably nobody thought about it at the time.

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