>
> >3. You get command-line completion OOTB. What does the compinit
> function give
> >you (I've never used that one before)?
>
> "Smart" directory name completion. For instance. "cd <TAB>" will only
> complete directory names, and much fancier things. (Check out
> /usr/local/share/zsh/4.02/functions/_*)
>
It gives you much much more. Of course, path names are the most "user
visible" (and most often used) but zsh can complete command arguments of
*any* type (given suitable completion function) and present them with
description as a list where you can select needed match. It can colorize
these lists. It can do partial word matching like f.c -> foo.c, and even
/u/i/s.h -> /usr/include/signal.h. Check <http://sunsite.dk/zsh/Guide/> that
gives nice tutorial what zsh can do. And it includes ready-to-use completion
for quite a number of commands.
-andrej
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