Initial Config menu

[iancward]

When I installed and ran zsh the first time, it pulled up a really handy menu that walked me through some of the toggles I could flip on and off. Most of the things made sense, but there were some parts of the auto-completion (which is a sub-menu, it seems) regarding the various options for globbing, expansion, etc that weren't entirely clear to me.

Maybe an overview of that "initial setup" and comparison of the options (e.g. what they actually look like in action) would be handy?

[rothgar]

I'll have to figure out a good way to start the menu so I can see the options and test them.

[iancward]

When I ran zsh the first time, it ran the menu automatically. It looks like you can re-run it with compinstall

[rothgar]

This is the menu you're referring to correct?

[iancward]

Yessir. I have to say I was pleasantly surprised to be presented with it, and most of the things in there were clear, but the section on tab completion (globbing, expansion, etc) was a bit hard to understand all the options for (rules, order, etc), probably because bash doesn't have anything that capable.

[iancward]

I've already found that some of the stuff isn't working as I thought it would, but I don't know if I can safely re-run compinstall and double check what I set up, without blowing stuff out and starting over (or breaking something else).

[rothgar]

I haven't forgotten about this I just have had time to go through the menu items and figure out what each one configures. If you have a list of the variables and options it sets that could help otherwise I'll just need to spend some time going through each option in a clean/container to see what .zshrc it generates.

[iancward]

No worries. I'm actually a little bit surprised that they don't have something that explains the menu and what each of the steps actually does. At least, I wasn't able to find anything on it.
I really appreciated the menu exists and came up automatically on first run but after that it seems like "you're on your own".