[Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#512045: "select" gives incomplete list

[Axel Beckert]

tag 512045 - unreproducible moreinfo + upstream
retitle 512045 zsh: Keybindings for multi-page select usage are not documented
severity 512045 minor
kthxbye

Hi David,

On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 07:05:16AM -0800, david sowerby wrote:
> you are right - you just need to hit Enter.

Thanks for the confirmation.

> I hadn't been using Zsh for very long when I ran into this. But the
> need to hit Enter wasn't stated anywhere in the man pages :-).

So this is mainly a documentation glitch. Will retitle the bug report
accordingly.

> This is different from Ksh and Bash, and Zsh even when running as
> Ksh keeps that difference. Not a bug - just different. 

The infamous ksh emulation mode yet again... ;-)

You shouldn't rely on it as a 1:1 copy of all ksh peculiarities or
bugs but rather see it as zsh behaving in a way so that ksh users feel
at home. :-) See also the recent thread on zsh-workers about ksh mode.

		Regards, Axel
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