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Abigail wrote: > I'm confused. What do you consider "the right thing"? For me, bash > *does* do the right thing - if there are alternatives, one tab expands > till there's an alternative, hitting tab a second time lists the > alternatives. Unless there are a lot of alternatives, then it will > tell me how many alternatives there are, and ask me whether I want to > see all the alternatives. I know of three main types of completion; I'll describe them as I think of them, but this is by no means canonical: bash-style: Exactly what you describe above. vim-style: First tab expands to the alphabetically-first file matching what you've typed so far. Further tabs cycle through the other matches. ksh-style: (Uses * in control mode; also works in bash.) Puts all matches on the prompt. He is asking for vim-style completion, rather than bash-style. I happen to heartily feel oppositely, but so be it. -- "I used to get high on life but lately I've built up a resistance." --------------------------------------------------------------------- Luke Kanies | http://abstractive.org | http://www.bladelogic.comThere's stuff above here
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