My behavior is different. I suspect it's due to your configuration, and not a bug ZSH. You might get more help on Stack Overflow.
I suspect that tab completion is handled by the lines that start zstyler ':completion:' I think my line that governs this behavior is this one: zstyle ':completion:*' completer _complete _ignored I can't really help more. A few years ago I tweaked zsh as little as possible, and haven't touched the configuration since. I don't understand most of the options. Good luck, Richard On Friday, January 24, 2014 11:13:23 Michael Torrie wrote: > On 01/24/2014 10:41 AM, Richard Esplin wrote: > > I had the same confusion, but I believe it is desired behavior. > > > > In zsh, the first time you tab it gives you the completion list. If you > > hold the tab, or tab again, it continues the completion with the first > > item from the list. > > > > It took me a long time to figure out that I had a propensity to hold down > > the tab key. > > Hmm. But the first tab doesn't give a list. It just fills in the > letters that it can. In my example, should it not just fill the > filename to "file1234" and stop? A second tab pulls up the list, and a > third tab lets me pick. How is putting in a . that only works with the > second filename anyway desired behavior? I think I might log an issue > with the zsh bug tracker and see their take on it. > > I do like how if there are files with identical parts but different in > the middle, zsh will fill it all in and then drop the cursor in the > middle section. Though I can see how fish's completion (somewhat more > like how GUI's do it) would be slick too. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
