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Re: How to affect the completion order of bash completion?
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: How to affect the completion order of bash completion? |
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Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:00:30 -0400 |
> First I did this: complete -W "p3 p2 p1" mycommand
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> Then I of course tested it by typing: mycommand p<tab>
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> Now when I push tab button it offers first "p1", then "p2" .. in
> "alpabetical"
> order. However it would be nice if I could make complete to honor the order
> in the word list.
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> Is there any way to make it first complete it with "p3" which is the first
> one
> in the list?
There is not; readline always sorts the list of matches.
Chet
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