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Re: make zsh completion ergonomics closer to those of bash?



On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Matias Graña <matias.alejo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Ian Clarke <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > When I hit the tab key, the first autocompletion is filled out
> > automatically, and you need to cycle through the completions by
> > hitting tab repeatedly (or using the arrow keys).
> >
> > Is there any way to make zsh completion act more like bash in this
> regard?
>
> After a long try/error session, I've found a few days ago that the
> variable MENUCOMPLETE had a lot to do with this.
> See if you have "setopt MENUCOMPLETE" somewhere in your rc's and try
> to comment it out.
>

Thanks Matías, unfortunately I couldn't find MENUCOMPLETE anywhere in my
.zshrc or any file sourced from it.   I tried typing "unsetopt MENUCOMPLETE"
but it didn't help :-(

Ian.

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