Re: zstyle question: enter menu selection on lots of ambiguity

["Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 27, 12:58pm, Sven Wischnowsky wrote:
} Subject: Re: zstyle question: enter menu selection on lots of ambiguity
}
} Bart Schaefer wrote:
} 
} > If I use both, I get menu-selection on the second tab and on C-d, and
} > sometimes more of the strange behavior (the same match inserted on the
} > line multiple times and stuff like that -- I think it happens if you hit
} > C-d repeatedly after completion or selection has started when the match
} > on the line (highlighted, in selection) is NOT a directory).
} 
} That perfectly ok'ish, actually. The ^D leaves menu selection, keeping 
} the currently selected match on the line, and makes the widget bound
} to it be executed.

Hmm, I'm not sure how to react to that.  C-d doesn't stop normal menu
completion; you have to type space or slash or whatever to "accept" the
match before generating a new list.  I suppose that's because in the
absence of `autolist' there won't be any listing yet, whereas with menu-
selection there's always a listing.

} So, with this patch, you can do:
} 
}   zstyle ':completion:*' menu yes=long select=long
} 
} if you want selection only if the list is too long for the screen.
} Of course you can also combine it with `select=<num>'.

OK, great, thanks!  So now ... how do I combine it with select=<num> in
such a way that I get menu-selection on the first tab when the list is
too long for the screen and on the second tab when the list is more than
<num> elements long?

E.g. on a 80x24 display, yes=long select=30 would work most of the time;
but if each match were more than 40 characters wide, fewer than 30 of
them would still be more than a screenful.

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