Looks like a bunch of stuff posted to the google group just came through.
This is a dupe.
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 5:39 PM, Grisha Levit <grishale...@gmail.com> wrote:
> f() { COMPREPLY=(aaaaaaaaaaaaaa bbbbbbbbbbbbbb cccccccccccccc); }
> complete -F f f
> bind 'set completion-prefix-display-length 2'
>
> $ f dddd [TAB][TAB]
> ...aaaaaaaaaa ...bbbbbbbbbb ...cccccccccc
>
> None of the completion entries share a common prefix, though the docs
> suggest that only common prefixes are removed:
>
> The length in characters of the common prefix of a list of possible
> completions
> that is displayed without modification. When set to a value greater
> than zero,
> common prefixes longer than this value are replaced with an ellipsis
> when
> displaying possible completions.
>
>
> colored-completion-prefix has the same issue, in that it colors the first
> n characters, where n is the length of the word being completed.
>
> On a related note, colored-completion-prefix has no effect if
> completion-prefix-display-length is greater than 0.
>
