Re: completion-prefix-display-length doesn't check for common prefix

[Grisha Levit]

Looks like a bunch of stuff posted to the google group just came through.  This is a dupe.

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 5:39 PM, Grisha Levit <grishalevit@gmail.com> wrote:

f() { COMPREPLY=(aaaaaaaaaaaaaa bbbbbbbbbbbbbb cccccccccccccc); }
complete -F f f
bind 'set completion-prefix-display-length 2'

$ f dddd [TAB][TAB]
...aaaaaaaaaa  ...bbbbbbbbbb  ...cccccccccc

None of the completion entries share a common prefix, though the docs suggest that only common prefixes are removed:

    The length in characters of the common prefix of a list of possible completions
    that  is  displayed without modification.  When set to a value greater than zero,
    common prefixes longer than this value are replaced with an ellipsis when
    displaying possible completions.


colored-completion-prefix has the same issue, in that it colors the first n characters, where n is the length of the word being completed.

On a related note, colored-completion-prefix has no effect if completion-prefix-display-length is greater than 0.