Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Workers List List-Post: List-Help: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 21:14:28 +0000 From: Daniel Shahaf To: Hong Xu Cc: Zsh hackers list Subject: Re: Feature request: readline's completion-prefix-display-length option Message-ID: <20160519211428.GA14104@tarsus.local2> References: <5738124C.7020705@topbug.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Seq: zsh-workers 38520 Bart Schaefer wrote on Sun, May 15, 2016 at 04:50:50 -0700: > On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 11:08 PM, Hong Xu 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. Deviously clever solutions aside, isn't this exactly what the -d option to compadd is for? I imagine prior to calling compadd, the following preprocessing could be invoked: if -d not passed: argument_to_-d = argument_to_-a for each element of argument_to_-d: if this element starts with ${PREFIX} replace the first ${#PREFIX} characters of this element with an ellipsis However, I'm not sure where this preprocessing should be invoked from. CHeers, Daniel