Re: Command-line completion

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On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 15:08:12 -0500, Luke Kanies <luke@xxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> 
> vim-style:
> First tab expands to the alphabetically-first file matching what you've
> typed so far.  Further tabs cycle through the other matches.

... which also happens to be the Windows shell style.

> He is asking for vim-style completion, rather than bash-style.  I happen
> to heartily feel oppositely, but so be it.

Personally, I'd like an interface environment for CLIs that wasn't
already outdated by the end of the 1970's. Why can't it, for example,
overlay a temporary window on the shell (which you can even do in
ANSI, for fuck's sake, so it's not like it'd break SSH) or would that
be too cutting-edge?

-- Yoz

• Luke Kanies 20:08 on 01 Feb 2005
  • Michael G Schwern 23:01 on 01 Feb 2005
    • Anton Berezin 13:48 on 02 Feb 2005
  • Yoz Grahame 23:13 on 01 Feb 2005
    • Luke Kanies 01:57 on 02 Feb 2005
    • peter (Peter da Silva) 13:20 on 02 Feb 2005

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