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RE: Size of select listing?

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From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Size of select listing?
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 16:42:57 +0200 (MET DST)
In-reply-to: "Andrej Borsenkow"'s message of Fri, 10 Sep 1999 19:59:04 +0400
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Andrej Borsenkow wrote:

> > It doesn't so much relate to handling the screen size but, one area
> > which I really don't like about the way _arguments and _long_options
> > work is the way options are considered possible matches straight-away.
> 
> It does relate to screen size. I repeat - if I have a "Really Large List" of
> matches, zsh asks me if I want to see them before printing. But if I have a
> list, that is only "a bit longer" than screen size, it is printed.
> 
> So, my question is - why zsh prints list that is longer than screen size? Is it
> intentional? I call it a bug. Either I need a way to scroll list (or to page
> through it one screen at a time) - or zsh must ask me before printing it.

Could you investigate further? This works well for me -- with
`LISTMAX=0', of course.

Have you set `LISTMAX' to something else? Is your LINES correct?

(Hm, yes, I think you made sure, I just can't think of other reasons...)

Bye
 Sven


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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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