Re: TAB strips wildcards

[Chet Ramey]

jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
> Here is a true case of what happens when you hit TAB with a wildcard:
> $ shar /tmp/logs/*/*/*<TAB>
> access.log  access.log
> $ shar /tmp/logs/
> Yes, it strips the wildcards!

Yes, it does.  Readline completion replaces the word on which completion
is attempted with the longest common prefix of the matches.  The
show-all-if-ambiguous option doesn't change that behavior; it just causes
the possible completions to be listed instead of ringing the bell.

I will take a look and see what can be done, but this behavior is fairly
basic.

Chet
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