Re: Space in interactive menu select

[Thayne <astrothayne@xxxxxxxxx>]

That's true. It should probably act deferently if the space is quoted or
escaped.

On Sun, Jul 1, 2018, 03:44 Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 8:25 AM, Thayne <astrothayne@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > With the following (minimal) .zshrc:
> >
> > zmodload zsh/complist
> > zstyle ':completion:*' menu select yes interactive
> > autoload -Uz compinit
> > compinit
> >
> > If I finish the word that is being completed myself, then press space, it
> > starts completing for the next word, but if I then accept a completion
> for
> > that word, it then replaces *both* words that I typed during completion.
> > https://asciinema.org/a/189304 shows an illustration of this.
> >
> > This is very unexpected behaviour. I would expect pressing a space during
> > interactive menu selection to stop the current completion and insert a
> > space after what has been typed so far. Or at least that is how I would
> > like it to happen, but as far as I can tell there isn't a way to
> accomplish
> > that.
> >
> > I have tried using `bindkey -M menuselect ' ' self-insert`, but that
> > doesn't make a difference. `bindkey -M menuselect ' ' accept-line` makes
> it
> > so a space is treated the same as enter, which is less surprising, but
> is a
> > little annoying if I start the completion, realize that the completion
> > doesn't have the option I actually need, type the real option, then press
> > space.
> >
> > I've also tried creating a custom zle widget that calls `zle send-break`
> > and then `zle self-insert`. And bind space to that widget, but that
> doesn't
> > work either (it looks like it acts the same as `accept-line`.
> >
> > This seems like a bug to me.
>
> You can't really just treat the space key as a special case here,
> consider completion inside a quote which won't end the current word.
>
> --
> Mikael Magnusson
>