Pipe zsh auto completion list to file or less

Question

zsh: do you wish to see all 923 possibilities (462 lines)?

Yes please, but in a file or less.

How would you get feedback from it? If it just put all of the possibilities in less, you'd have to read through it, exit, then retype your suggestion.
Yes, that at least would be better than not being able to read some suggestions at all because they are outside of the terminal buffer or whatever.

Mika Fischer · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-26 19:10:28Z

up vote 1 down vote accepted

zsh can do this internally. Put this into your .zshrc:

zstyle ':completion:*' list-prompt   ''
zstyle ':completion:*' select-prompt ''

before

autoload -Uz compinit
compinit

(add the latter lines if not already present)

See the zsh documentation for details.

answered Jan 26 '12 at 19:10

Mika Fischer
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Thanks, makes sense that zsh can already do this... – H.B. Jan 26 '12 at 22:28

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