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Subject: Re: Feature request: readline's completion-prefix-display-length option
From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Cc: Hong Xu <hong@topbug.net>
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On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 11:08 PM, Hong Xu <hong@topbug.net> wrote:
>
> I believe that readline's completion-prefix-display-length is a great
> option to have for zle. This option enables the common part of long
> completions to be represented by ellipsis, so the options in the
> completion list would not be too long in many cases.

There might be a deviously clever way to do this with the list-colors
style, similar to the way that show-ambiguity is implemented.