PATCH: Re: zstyle question: enter menu selection on lots of ambiguity

[Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bart Schaefer wrote:

> On Jul 28,  9:00am, Sven Wischnowsky wrote:
> } 
> } You can give `select=*' more than once, which especially makes sense
> } if it's once with a number and once with `long*':
> } 
> }   zstyle '*' menu yes=long select=long select=10
> } 
> } (the manual says `In addition to (or instead of)...').
> 
> Yeah, it says `select' can be in addition to or instead of `yes' et al.
> It doesn't say what happens when `select' is in addition to itself.  It
> might be nice to clarify; are there other cases where it's meaningful to
> give similar strings multiple times in the value of a style?

Ouch. Sorry, I got confused by the paragraphs.

Yes, maybe we should mention it.

Bye
 Sven

Index: Doc/Zsh/compsys.yo
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@@ -1649,6 +1649,11 @@
 invoked does completion, not simply listing as done by
 tt(delete-char-or-list); to start menu-selection even here, use the value
 `tt(select=long-list)'.
+
+To turn on menu completion or menu selection when a certain number of
+matches is generated em(or) the list of matches does not fit onto the
+screen, both of `tt(yes=)' and `tt(select=)' can be given twice, once
+with a number and once with `tt(long)' or `tt(long-list)'.
 )
 kindex(numbers, completion style)
 item(tt(numbers))(

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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx