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Re: choice of case in tab completions

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From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Zsh users list <zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: choice of case in tab completions
Date: Sun, 07 May 2006 14:31:17 +0100
In-reply-to: Message from Anthony Heading <ajrh@xxxxxxxx> of "Sun, 07 May 2006 02:37:24 EDT." <20060507063724.GA24554@griboedov>
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Anthony Heading wrote:
> On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 01:31:16PM +0100, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> > Surely this is because the match is ambiguous?  It doesn't know whether
> > you want INSTALL or Install.bin and has to pick the characters from one
> > or other.
> 
> Yes, sure.  So I'd like it always to pick the fully-completed one (i.e. the
> shortest match) because that's the only one which is immediately useful.

Aha.  I hadn't quite got that.  Setting REC_EXACT should probably fix
this, but it looks like it still doesn't get the case right, at least in
my limited attempts.  This may be a bug, although I don't usually use
that option, so I'm not sure.

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Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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