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Re: accept-and-infer-next-history in menu selection

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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Zsh hackers list)
Subject: Re: accept-and-infer-next-history in menu selection
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 10:37:01 +0200
In-reply-to: "Peter Stephenson"'s message of "Thu, 08 Jul 1999 10:19:45 DFT." <9907080819.AA08960@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Peter Stephenson wrote:
> I can't get accept-and-infer-next-history to work in menu selection at
> all.  It simply cycles round to the next match.  What could I be doing
> wrong?

I've tracked it down: it's incompatible with the _oldlist key oldlist_menu,
which says to keep the old menu.  As far as I can see, it has no way of
knowing that you really want to try a different completion at that point,
so there's no way of using _oldlist here.

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Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>       Tel: +39 050 844536
WWW:  http://www.ifh.de/~pws/
Dipartimento di Fisica, Via Buonarroti 2, 56127 Pisa, Italy

References:
- accept-and-infer-next-history in menu selection
  - From: Peter Stephenson

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