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Re: tab-completion from wildcard

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From: Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Maurice <mauricex@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: tab-completion from wildcard
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 19:12:08 +0200
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Maurice wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> if I press TAB after a '*', it doesn't insert the matching files
> immediately. Instead I have to press TAB several times. I hope this
> example makes it clear:

zstyle ':completion::*:expand:*' tag-order all-expansions

>   % touch a b c
>   % echo *<TAB>

If you type Ctrl-X h at that point instead of Tab, it tells you that
the things it completes have the tags `all-expansions' `expansions' and
`original'. The tag-order style above restricts it to just all-expansions.

Oliver

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