Re: history substring search too aggressive sometimes

[John Covici <covici@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 07:10:25 -0400,
Peter Stephenson wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 07:03:58 -0400
> John Covici <covici@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Well, I  was looking at the options section of the manual, and
> > although its not perfect yet, disabling menucomplete which was on and
> > complete_in_word, helped a great deal.  Also, I discovered to get a
> > list of all the options, I had to do
> > set -o
> > instead of setopt which I was doing before.
> 
> Hmm, setopt should show you all non-default options, so if menucomplete
> was on it should show up.  That explains why you're getting the first
> word inserted.
> 
> complete_in_word is only applied if the cursor is in the middle of the
> word when you hit tab, and only at that point.  (The standard assumption
> is you're at the end of the word you're completing, but it should
> be possible to get it to work anyway.)
> 
> None of the other options look relevant.
> 
> Note there are additional extra things going on if you have directory
> paths as it will complete multiple components, but it didn't sound like
> that was the issue.
> 

OK.   I think I am on the road for a solution here, thanks a lot.

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