Re: How to insert completions on command line

["Mikael Magnusson" <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/19/06, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Aug 18, 10:16pm, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> }
> } > zstyle :completion:expand-word:expand:\* tag-order all-expansions
> } >
> } > Then type ctrl-X e
> }
> } This seems to only have an effect on globbing completions
>
> That's the second time this summer I've misinterpreted that same
> question.  (Which means the answer is in the zsh-users archives
> from only a few weeks ago, if you had looked.)
>
> Look up _all_matches in the manual.
>
>           zle -C all-matches complete-word _generic
>           bindkey '^Xa' all-matches
>           zstyle ':completion:all-matches:*' old-matches only
>           zstyle ':completion:all-matches::::' completer _all_matches

Thanks, that works perfectly. Looking at the old message i vaguely
remember reading it at the time, but didn't realize i would want it.
I'm also not sure what i would have searched for without knowing the
name "_all_matches".

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Mikael Magnusson