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<h1>A User's Guide to the Z-Shell</h1>
<h2>Peter Stephenson</h2>
<h2>1999/06/02</h2>
<p><hr><p><br><h1>Table of Contents </h1><p></p>
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<dt><h2><a href="zshguide01.html#l1">Chapter 1: A short introduction</a></h2>
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<dt><h3><a href="zshguide01.html#l2">1.1: Other shells and other guides</a></h3>
<dt><h3><a href="zshguide01.html#l3">1.2: Versions of zsh</a></h3>
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<dt><h2><a href="zshguide02.html#l4">Chapter 2: What to put in your startup files</a></h2>
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<dt><h3><a href="zshguide02.html#l5">2.1: Types of shell: interactive and login shells</a></h3>
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<dt><a href="zshguide02.html#l6">2.1.1: What is a login shell? Simple tests</a>
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<dt><h3><a href="zshguide02.html#l7">2.2: All the startup files</a></h3>
<dt><h3><a href="zshguide02.html#l8">2.3: Options</a></h3>
<dt><h3><a href="zshguide02.html#l9">2.4: Parameters</a></h3>
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<dt><a href="zshguide02.html#l10">2.4.1: Arrays</a>
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<dt><h3><a href="zshguide02.html#l11">2.5: What to put in your startup files</a></h3>
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<dt><a href="zshguide02.html#l12">2.5.1: Compatibility options: <code>SH_WORD_SPLIT</code> and others</a>
<dt><a href="zshguide02.html#l13">2.5.2: Options for csh junkies</a>
<dt><a href="zshguide02.html#l14">2.5.3: The history mechanism: types of history</a>
<dt><a href="zshguide02.html#l15">2.5.4: Setting up history</a>
<dt><a href="zshguide02.html#l16">2.5.5: History options</a>
<dt><a href="zshguide02.html#l17">2.5.6: Prompts</a>
<dt><a href="zshguide02.html#l18">2.5.7: Named directories</a>
<dt><a href="zshguide02.html#l19">2.5.8: `Go faster' options for power users</a>
<dt><a href="zshguide02.html#l20">2.5.9: aliases</a>
<dt><a href="zshguide02.html#l21">2.5.10: Environment variables</a>
<dt><a href="zshguide02.html#l22">2.5.11: Path</a>
<dt><a href="zshguide02.html#l23">2.5.12: Mail</a>
<dt><a href="zshguide02.html#l24">2.5.13: Other path-like things</a>
<dt><a href="zshguide02.html#l25">2.5.14: Version-specific things</a>
<dt><a href="zshguide02.html#l26">2.5.15: Everything else</a>
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<dt><h2><a href="zshguide03.html#l27">Chapter 3: Dealing with basic shell syntax <em>Not written</em></a></h2>
<dt><h2><a href="zshguide04.html#l28">Chapter 4: The Z-Shell Line Editor <em>Not written</em></a></h2>
<dt><h2><a href="zshguide05.html#l29">Chapter 5: Substitutions <em>Not written</em></a></h2>
<dt><h2><a href="zshguide06.html#l30">Chapter 6: Completion, old and new</a></h2>
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<dt><h3><a href="zshguide06.html#l31">6.1: Completion and expansion</a></h3>
<dt><h3><a href="zshguide06.html#l32">6.2: Getting started with new completion</a></h3>
<dt><h3><a href="zshguide06.html#l33">6.3: How the shell finds the right completions</a></h3>
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<dt><a href="zshguide06.html#l34">6.3.1: Contexts</a>
<dt><a href="zshguide06.html#l35">6.3.2: Tags</a>
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<dt><h3><a href="zshguide06.html#l36">6.4: Configuring completion using shell options</a></h3>
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<dt><a href="zshguide06.html#l37">6.4.1: Ambiguous completions</a>
<dt><a href="zshguide06.html#l38">6.4.2: <code>ALWAYS_LAST_PROMPT</code></a>
<dt><a href="zshguide06.html#l39">6.4.3: Menu completion and menu selection</a>
<dt><a href="zshguide06.html#l40">6.4.4: Other ways of changing completion behaviour</a>
<dt><a href="zshguide06.html#l41">6.4.5: Changing the way completions are displayed</a>
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<dt><h3><a href="zshguide06.html#l42">6.5: Configuring completion using styles</a></h3>
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<dt><a href="zshguide06.html#l43">6.5.1: Specifying completers and their options</a>
<dt><a href="zshguide06.html#l44">6.5.2: Changing the format of listings: groups etc.</a>
<dt><a href="zshguide06.html#l45">6.5.3: Styles affecting particular completions</a>
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<dt><h3><a href="zshguide06.html#l46">6.6: Command widgets</a></h3>
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<dt><a href="zshguide06.html#l47">6.6.1: <code>_complete_help</code></a>
<dt><a href="zshguide06.html#l48">6.6.2: <code>_correct_word</code>, <code>_correct_filename</code>, <code>_expand_word</code></a>
<dt><a href="zshguide06.html#l49">6.6.3: <code>_history_complete_word</code></a>
<dt><a href="zshguide06.html#l50">6.6.4: <code>_most_recent_file</code></a>
<dt><a href="zshguide06.html#l51">6.6.5: <code>_bash_completions</code></a>
<dt><a href="zshguide06.html#l52">6.6.6: <code>_read_comp</code></a>
<dt><a href="zshguide06.html#l53">6.6.7: <code>predict-on</code>, <code>incremental-complete-word</code></a>
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<dt><h3><a href="zshguide06.html#l54">6.7: Matching control and controlling where things are inserted</a></h3>
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<dt><a href="zshguide06.html#l55">6.7.1: Case-insensitive matching</a>
<dt><a href="zshguide06.html#l56">6.7.2: Matching option names</a>
<dt><a href="zshguide06.html#l57">6.7.3: Partial word completion</a>
<dt><a href="zshguide06.html#l58">6.7.4: Substring completion</a>
<dt><a href="zshguide06.html#l59">6.7.5: Final notes</a>
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<dt><h3><a href="zshguide06.html#l60">6.8: Writing new completion functions and widgets</a></h3>
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<dt><a href="zshguide06.html#l61">6.8.1: Loading completion functions: <code>compdef</code></a>
<dt><a href="zshguide06.html#l62">6.8.2: Adding a set of completions: <code>compadd</code></a>
<dt><a href="zshguide06.html#l63">6.8.3: Functions for generating filenames, etc.</a>
<dt><a href="zshguide06.html#l64">6.8.4: The <code>zsh/parameter</code> module</a>
<dt><a href="zshguide06.html#l65">6.8.5: Special completion parameters and <code>compset</code></a>
<dt><a href="zshguide06.html#l66">6.8.6: Fancier completion: using the tags and styles mechanism</a>
<dt><a href="zshguide06.html#l67">6.8.7: Getting the work done for you: handling arguments etc.</a>
<dt><a href="zshguide06.html#l68">6.8.8: More completion utility functions</a>
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<dt><h3><a href="zshguide06.html#l69">6.9: Finally</a></h3>
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<dt><h2><a href="zshguide07.html#l70">Chapter 7: Modules and other bits and pieces <em>Not written</em></a></h2>
<dt><h2><a href="zshguide08.html#l71">Appendix A: Obtaining zsh and getting more information</a></h2>
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