Should complete exact prefix before fuzzy matches

[vitaly]

• zsh-autocomplete version: b164ae7
• Zsh version: /usr/local/bin/zsh zsh-5.8-0-g77d203f
• Framework: zim
• Plugin manager: none
• Operating system: darwin19.6.0

| BTW, the above, imho, should be generated by a command

the problem:

I'm very fast at the keyboard, and used to type ahead, not waiting for shell to catch up.

Since switching to zsh-autocomplete shell frequently does something very unexpected.

Where it comes to autocompletion, there is a lot of 'muscle memory' and default expectation as to how such a system supposed to work. For example, if I type something that is an exact prefix of some completion, then I expect it to be used when I press tab.

Here is an example:

I have 2 aliases git-merged which shows branches merged into current, and git-clean-merged which deletes those branches. I usually run git-merged first ;).
To my surprise, when I typed git-mer<tab><enter> it got git-clean-merged executed.

Another frequent problem is when I need to change into a directory, and I type couple of first letters, knowing there are no other directories with the same prefix, then <tab><enter>, and then taken to some random unexpected place, because it got completed from history or something.

test script:

cd $(mktemp -d -t autest)
git clone --depth 1 -- https://github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete.git
print '
PS1="%# " PS2="  " RPS2="< %^"; setopt transientrprompt
alias git-merged=true
alias git-clean-merged=false
source ~/zsh-autocomplete/zsh-autocomplete.plugin.zsh
' > .zshrc
exec env -i HOME=$PWD TERM=$TERM SHELL=$SHELL $SHELL -d

result

% git-me
alias
git-clean-merged  git-merged

At this point (or even before the completion appears) if I press tab it will complete git-clean-merged, which I think is wrong, when an exact prefix completion exists.

[marlonrichert]

BTW, the above, imho, should be generated by a command

Can you give examples of GitHub repos where this is done that way? I would like to see if there's any standard or conventions for this, instead of just making up my own.

[marlonrichert]

Implemented.

[marlonrichert]

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[vitaly]

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done ;)

[vitaly]

BTW, the above, imho, should be generated by a command

Can you give examples of GitHub repos where this is done that way? I would like to see if there's any standard or conventions for this, instead of just making up my own.

No. I just think that instead of copy pasting commands to and from terminal, running something like zsh-autocomplete-bug-report would be more convenient ;)

[marlonrichert]

Sure, I can add some kind of command for that.