Change zsh completion to put completions above the prompt

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I'm a long-time tcsh user that finally decided to try out zsh. I've been toying around with completion, but one thing I don't like is that when I hit tab for a completion that might have a lot of values, it prints the completion options below the prompt, pushing the prompt up off the bottom of the terminal. TCSH would leave the old prompt, print the completions on new lines below, and then reprint the prompt and the command that you had typed so far.

Is there any way to change the completion logic so that completion options are printed above the prompt?

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unsetopt ALWAYS_LAST_PROMPT will give you the effect but may affect certain menu completion settings.

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Add this line to your ~/.zshrc:

setopt menu_complete

See man zshoptions for details.

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On any system that uses terminfo:

printf "The password is %s " "swordfish"
read -r line
tput cuu1; tput el

Press Enter to erase the password and quit, or Ctrl+C to quit immediately. If your system uses termcap, use tput up; tput ce. This code assumes that the cursor is still on the line with the password by the time the user pressed Enter.

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