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Re: completion autolist has time-sensitive interface



On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 11:55:23PM -0400, Eric Cook wrote:
> On 08/15/2018 09:45 PM, frederik@xxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > Interesting! I wonder if some workaround could be devised, either
> > showing a "..." to indicate that the shell is busy coming up with
> > completions, or not eating the typeahead when it consists of TABs.
> > 
> zstyle ':completion:*' show-completer true
> may be what you want

Thank you, indeed that fixes the problem for me. Now if I can figure
out how to get a better message than

    Trying completion for :completion::complete::

(... looks like I have to modify Completion/Base/Core/_main_complete?)

Thanks,

Frederick



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