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Re: PATCH: Re: (forw) --help able programs and completion]

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From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: PATCH: Re: (forw) --help able programs and completion]
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 15:46:04 -0700
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On Jun 27,  5:02pm, Sven Wischnowsky wrote:
> Subject: PATCH: Re: (forw) --help able programs and completion]
> 
> Bart Schaefer wrote:
> 
> > What I was expecting, for some reason, was that menu selection would start
> > immediately if there were more than N matches, not wait for the second TAB
> > that triggers automenu.
> 
> Ah. No, but that's easy to add.

Er, thanks, but you didn't really need to add that; all I wanted was a
yes-or-no answer ...

> I used the same form as for `select', i.e. one can say `yes=3' to turn 
> on menu completion when there are at least three matches.

Hrm.
	zstyle ':completion:*' menu 1=3

Does that look a bit strange to anyone else?

> Does anybody now want support for `no=3'?

Which would mean ...?

However, a plain-ol'-menu-completion variant of select=long-list might be
interesting.

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