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Re: newbie's question about completion

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From: Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Dan Kenigsberg <danken@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: newbie's question about completion
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 11:01:45 +0000
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Dan Kenigsberg wrote:
> 
> Assume I have an executable in my $PATH named `armadillo'.
> 
> In versions 2.5.0 and 3.0.8 I only had to type ar<TAB> to execute it.
> Since ar(1) is in my path, too, zsh would beep and let me choose between ar and
> armadillo.
> 
> However in versions 3.1.9 and 4.0.2, ar<TAB> expands to `ar ', and does not give
> me the opportunity to choose what I wanted. I find this very annoying.
> 
> Browsing the man and searching the web for how to revert to the old behavior
> did not produce the answer. Frankly, I don't know waht to search for..

Try: unsetopt recexact

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