Re: How to make ESC to cancel current completion

[Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 22 of February 2010 02:32:48 Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Feb 21,  5:59pm, Sébastien Pierre wrote:
> }
> } % ls c/<ESC>      # I hit ESC to go back to where I was before
> hitting tab } in the first place
> } % ls              # typing ESC undo-ed the last 'c/' completion
> }
> } is there an option to make zsh behave like this ?
> 
> Are you using vi style bindings (bindkey -v) or emacs style
> (default)?
> 
> In emacs style, it should work to do
> 
>     bindkey '\e' send-break
> 

Hmm ... for me ^G kills the whole input line instead of terminating 
completion and leaving me on 'ls '; may be it depends on options ...

OK, ^G would kill active menu-selection; but not standard menu 
completion. I do not know if there is simple way to do the latter.

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