From d59d9da6aaa99ba785dd1159bd854c3cb9da37ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Stephenson Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 17:53:55 +0000 Subject: users/11575: improved documentation for _all_matches --- ChangeLog | 5 +++++ Doc/Zsh/compsys.yo | 11 +++++++++-- 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 9ac8d399b..e36c5e500 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2007-06-16 Peter Stephenson + + * users/11575: Doc/Zsh/compsys.yo: document use of + additional completers and insert style with _all_matches + 2007-06-15 Peter Stephenson * 23553: Doc/Zsh/arith.yo, Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo, Src/exec.c, diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/compsys.yo b/Doc/Zsh/compsys.yo index 963e43c96..d5651157b 100644 --- a/Doc/Zsh/compsys.yo +++ b/Doc/Zsh/compsys.yo @@ -2726,9 +2726,16 @@ bindkey '^Xa' all-matches zstyle ':completion:all-matches:*' old-matches only zstyle ':completion:all-matches::::' completer _all_matches) -Note that this does not generate completions by itself. First use +Note that this does not generate completions by itself: first use any of the standard ways of generating a list of completions, -then use tt(^Xa) to show all matches. +then use tt(^Xa) to show all matches. It is possible instead to +add a standard completer to the list and request that the +list of all matches should be directly inserted: + +example(zstyle ':completion:all-matches::::' completer _all_matches _complete +zstyle ':completion:all-matches:*' insert true) + +In this case the tt(old-matches) style should not be set. ) findex(_approximate) item(tt(_approximate))( -- cgit 1.4.1