#83 Host Name Completion Needs Updating

[Anonymous]

Host name completion is extremely frustrating in ZSH when dealing with similar names in work environments. I do not believe there is a way to change the default behavior, so I am reporting this here. I have posted on the zsh mailing list with no help, so I am posting this here asking for a way for this to change.

Problem:

When I have multiple hosts with similar names,
the completion does stuff that I don't care for. An example is best:

Let's say I have these hosts:

host01.stage.example.com
host02.stage.example.com
host01.prod.example.com
host02.prod.example.com

<tab> = me hitting tab
| = cursor position

I TYPE:

$ ssh hos<tab>

ZSH SHOWS:

$ ssh host.|.example.com

with the cursor right after "host" and shows me a menu with the host
names in it. I then continue to type "stage"

$ ssh host.stage<tab>.example.com

and I am presented this mess:

$ ssh host|.stage.example.com.example.com

I then type this in (hopefully it will fix itself):

$ ssh host01<tab>.stage.example.com.example.com

and I get a bigger mess:

$ ssh host01.|.example.com.stage.example.com.example.com

I type this:

$ ssh host01.stage<tab>.example.com.stage.example.com.example.com

and I get this:

$ ssh host01.stage.example.com |.example.com.stage.example.com.example.com

A control-k takes care of it at this point, but it's a much longer process than it needs to be.

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Potential solutions.

1. Change the way it tab completes entirely, and by default something like this:

A preferred way would be to not complete the rest of the host name.
something like:

$ ssh hos<tab>

zsh would hopefully show me:

$ ssh host
host01.stage.example.com host01.prod.example.com
host02.stage.example.com host02.prod.example.com

2. If people still prefer the way I described above, provide an option to enable default tab completion (as described in #1)