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Re: menu completion

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From: Dave Woodfall <dave@xxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: menu completion
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2020 17:48:26 +0100
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On 2020-04-05 14:00,
Pier Paolo Grassi <pierpaolog@xxxxxxxxx> put forth the proposition:
> Hello, when trying to complete with interactive menu completion some
> command with many options, eg grep, I get a message like
> zsh: do you wish to see all 156 possibilities (41 lines)?
> is it possibile to disable it and just see the interactive menu?
>
> Pier Paolo Grassi

If you use the zstyle `menu' set to `select' it should do this:

zstyle ':completion:*' menu select

There are more settings listed in man zshcompsys:

man zshcompsys | less -p "^       menu"

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Dave

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  - From: Pier Paolo Grassi

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