Menu Scroll with Limited Amount of Lines

[nivzelber]

I'd like a combination of settings in ~/.zshrc like

zstyle ':autocomplete:history-search-backward:*' list-lines 10
# another setting here

Where the second setting makes pressing the up arrow on the first suggestion (10th from the bottom) will continue to the previous suggestion (i.e. 11th one) instead of circling back to start.
Is there an option for that?

[marlonrichert]

As mentioned in the Readme, this will let you scroll up to 2000 lines backward:

zstyle ':autocomplete:history-search-backward:*' list-lines 2000

You could even decide to make it scroll through all of history:

zstyle -e ':autocomplete:history-search-backward:*' list-lines '$HISTSIZE'

However, depending on the actual number of items in your history, this can be extremely slow. That is, unfortunately, a limitation of Zsh and there's not much I can do about it.

[nivzelber]

This is not what I'm looking for as setting a really high number will make the menu occupy the entire screen.
I want a limited list, with scrolling ability instead of cycling back to the first suggestion from the last one. If I set the number to, let's say, 5, I want to always see 5 suggestions at most on the screen, but with the ability to scroll to other suggestions (i.e. 1-5, 6-10, 11-15, ...).

[max0l]

yes, I was also about to ask about this

[marlonrichert]

Sorry, not natively possible in Zsh

[max0l]

I'm trying to understand this better, but I can't get my head around why it works if there are more lines that can be displayed than the actual lines on the terminal screen. If this happens, I can "scroll" through the entire history.