Zsh Mailing List Archive
Messages sorted by:
Reverse Date,
Date,
Thread,
Author
RE: completion widgets in menu selection
- X-seq: zsh-workers 12970
- From: "Andrej Borsenkow" <Andrej.Borsenkow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "E. Jay Berkenbilt" <ejb@xxxxxx>, <zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: RE: completion widgets in menu selection
- Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 20:42:03 +0400
- Importance: Normal
- In-reply-to: <200010111559.LAA01806@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Mailing-list: contact zsh-workers-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; run by ezmlm
> In the last several weeks, I raised three issues on this list:
>
> 1. a|TAB being broken (which was fixed and I assume committed to
> CVS)
>
> 2. being able to more flexibly say that the completion rules for one
> command should be identical to another (as in _rlogin) without
> requiring Draconian restrictions on how completion functions
> should be organized
>
> 3. (my favorite) being able to insert all completions that match the
> current shell globbing expression into the commandline.
>
> The first issue is obviously resolved. The second issue has generated
> less traffic than the third and I haven't had much trouble following.
> It seems like a good track is being followed.
>
> On the final issue, I'm confused about where things are going. I've
> decided that, as Bart suspected all along, I don't really like TAB
> automatically "expanding" my glob expression even in the case of cvs
> add. What I think I really like is the _insert_all_matches option.
> That way I can hit TAB to see what would complete without actually
> having the completion be done, and if I'm satisfied, do something like
> ^Xi to do the expansion. Has this functionality actually been added,
> or was it just discussed?
>
Hey ho! Now I'm not alone! :-)))
Yes, all prerequisites are implemented in current CVS. What is missing, is
the widget/key binding itself, but if you use example from docs verbatim, it
works. I've tried it and I confirm it.
If you have suggestions what this _insert_all_matches should do - you are
welcome. The difference between example and my version is that in my version
you could hit ^Xi - and if there was no list, it called normal completion. Is
this interesting? Example from docs will work only after existing list has
already been generated.
-andrej
Messages sorted by:
Reverse Date,
Date,
Thread,
Author