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Completion Using compctl
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Types of completion
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This version of zsh has two ways of performing completion of words on
the command line.  New users of the shell may prefer to use the newer
and more powerful system based on shell functions; this is described in
Note: Completion System, and the basic shell mechanisms which support
it are described in Note: Completion Widgets.  This chapter describes
the older compctl command.

Description
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compctl [ -CDT ] OPTIONS [ COMMAND ... ]

compctl [ -CDT ] OPTIONS [ -x PATTERN OPTIONS - ... - ] [ + OPTIONS [ -x ... - ] ... [+] ] [ COMMAND ... ]

compctl -M MATCH-SPECS ...

compctl -L [ -CDTM ] [ COMMAND ... ]

compctl + COMMAND ...

Control the editor's completion behavior according to the supplied set
of OPTIONS.  Various editing commands, notably expand-or-complete-word,
usually bound to tab, will attempt to complete a word typed by the
user, while others, notably delete-char-or-list, usually bound to ^D in
EMACS editing mode, list the possibilities; compctl controls what those
possibilities are.  They may for example be filenames (the most common
case, and hence the default), shell variables, or words from a
user-specified list.

Command Flags

Option Flags

Alternative Completion

Extended Completion

Example