In my bash shell, when my cursor is between text, and I hit Tab, it autocompletes the filename, and when I hit Enter, it inserts the completion at the cursor, and everything after the cursor remains, e.g.
$ cp foo.ba¦r.baz.py ^ <== cursor position Hit the Tab key, and now I see:
$ cp foo.bar.baz.py¦r.baz.py ^ <== cursor position I like this behavior, particularly when doing a mv or cp and want to modify the original filename. How can I get zsh to do the same thing?
Use expand-or-complete-prefix, adding this to your .zshrc file:
bindkey '^i' expand-or-complete-prefix Read this page for more details about zsh completion.
Alternatively, you can add the _prefix control function at the end of your zstyle ':completion:*' completer command in your zshrc, so it will look something like this:
zstyle ':completion:*' completer _force_rehash _complete _list _match _prefix You also need to enable completeinword for this to work:
setopt completeinword This way you aren't forced to use expansion like you would be by binding expand-or-complete-prefix.
