Re: show-ambiguity style

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Apr 13,  1:00pm, Jesper Nygards wrote:
}
} zstyle ':completion:*' list-colors ${(s.:.)LS_COLORS}
} zstyle ':completion:*' show-ambiguity $color[bg-red]
} 
} I only get EITHER the file type coloring or the ambiguity indication,
} depending on the order of those two lines.

It shouldn't depend on the order of the lines.  I think if you look more
closely, you'll find that you get show-ambiguity any time there *is* an
ambiguity, and list-colors the rest of the time.

} In an ideal world, I would like to have the file type coloring, AND then
} something that indicates where the ambiguity starts, but this is perhaps
} not possible to achieve?

It's not currently possible because show-ambiguity is a trick done in
shell script code that sits on top of list-colors which is done in the
underlying C code.

There's a bit of side discussion on zsh-workers about this right now, but
nobody immediately available to make changes to the zsh/complist module.