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Re: Command completion considering characters after the cursor?
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Command completion considering characters after the cursor? |
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Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:00:28 -0500 |
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On 1/18/10 9:49 AM, Peng Yu wrote:
> Suppose I have 'some.sh' in my command line, and my cursor is at '.'
>
> $some.sh
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> Suppose there is only one command that start with 'some', which is
> 'something.sh'. After I type TAB, I will have 'something.sh.sh' in my
> command line.
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> $something.sh.sh
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> I'm wondering if there is a way to configure bash, so that I will get
> 'something.sh' rather than 'something.sh.sh'.
There is nothing directly analogous in bash. The closest thing is the
`skip-completed-text' readline variable in bash-4.1/readline-6.1, but
that will not help in this case.
Chet
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