RE: Completion list is not cleared

[Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andrej Borsenkow wrote:

> 
> >
> > I even forgot one question: when should it be deleted. Whenever a
> > menucompletion is left and whenever a normal completion gives only one
> > match (which is then inserted)? At least this sounds to me as if some
> > people might like to have it. On the other side there may be people
> > (like me) who would like to leave the list in place in these cases
> > (maybe I want to complete another word from it), but remove the list
> > if the completion code produces no matches (I have all beeps turned
> > off).
> >
> 
> I understand now, what I really wanted. I wanted zsh to know, when I am
> through with selecting the best match. With all ZSH features, it probably
> won't read your mind ... not yet at least :-)

I think you are right, zsh could at least try to guess this. The
question, when zsh should remove the list (and a old list that has not 
been removed when another completion attempt fails is certainly a bad
thing). If I would dare to do so, I would suggest an option...

Bye
 Sven


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