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Re: Command completion considering characters after the cursor?
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Peng Yu |
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Re: Command completion considering characters after the cursor? |
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Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:04:56 -0600 |
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
> On 1/18/10 9:49 AM, Peng Yu wrote:
>> Suppose I have 'some.sh' in my command line, and my cursor is at '.'
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>> $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'.
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> 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.
Can I request this feature be added in future version of bash?