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-rw-r--r--Functions/Zle/history-beginning-search-menu13
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index b3b855778..4c3244251 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
2006-07-28 Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
+ * 22560: Functions/Zle/history-beginning-search-menu:
+ tweak (= hack) to clear menu after use.
+
* 22559: Doc/Zsh/contrib.yo,
Functions/Zle/history-beginning-search-menu: new Zle function.
diff --git a/Functions/Zle/history-beginning-search-menu b/Functions/Zle/history-beginning-search-menu
index 37d3aec17..616cc7d7f 100644
--- a/Functions/Zle/history-beginning-search-menu
+++ b/Functions/Zle/history-beginning-search-menu
@@ -41,6 +41,10 @@ local -a display
local search=$LBUFFER
if [[ $WIDGET = *-space* ]]; then
+ # We need to quote metacharacters in the search string
+ # since they are otherwise active in the reverse subscript.
+ # We need to avoid quoting other characters since they aren't
+ # and just stay quoted, rather annoyingly.
search=${search//(#m)[*?#<>]/\\$MATCH/}
search=${search// /*}
fi
@@ -68,7 +72,14 @@ zle -R "Enter digit${${width##1}:+s}:" $display
local chars
read -k$width chars
+# Hmmm... this isn't great. The only way of clearing the display
+# appears to be to overwrite it completely. I think that's because
+# displaying strings in this way doesn't set the completion list
+# properly.
+display=(${display//?/ })
+
if [[ $chars != [[:digit:]]## || $chars -eq 0 || $chars -gt $n ]]; then
+ zle -R '' $display
return 1
fi
@@ -87,3 +98,5 @@ else
BUFFER=${matches[$chars]}
(( newcursor )) && CURSOR=$newcursor
fi
+
+zle -R '' $display