Re: PATCH: zsh-3.1.5-pws-6: bash-style completion

[Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Stephenson wrote:

> Sven Wischnowsky wrote:
> > I don't have a 3.0.5, so I couldn't try the patch. But as far as I can 
> > see, this should behave like normal completion with `setopt AUTOLIST'
> > and `setopt LISTAMBIGUOUS'.
> 
> We seem to have this discussion every week.  It's not like bash,
> because bash only shows the list on the *second* tab, and zsh can't
> currently do that.

I *know* that the thing I suggested shows behavior unlike bash. I was
referring to the patch he sent which (as far as I can see, without
testing it) should behave like LISTAMBIGUOUS plus AUTOLIST.

> Nor do I think it's fair to rely on the new
> completion to try to get this behaviour.

That's right.

> ...
>
> I've also been having strange effects when combining all this with:
>   compctl -M 'm:{a-z}={A-Z}' 'r:|[.,_-]=* r:|=*'
> but I haven't tracked it down (and it's there anyway, I just normally
> use menu completion so hadn't noticed).  I think there may be a
> problem with `compctl -M' on its own, too, since I got a crash after
> that once.

I'll look into this.


Bye
 Sven


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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx