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Re: Completiong for first word invoked even when cursor is before the fi
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Completiong for first word invoked even when cursor is before the first word |
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Fri, 06 May 2011 11:19:43 -0400 |
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On 5/1/11 11:02 AM, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Completion functions seem to be invoked for the first word even when the
> cursor is before that word. For example:
>
> $ foo() { echo ; echo completing; }
> $ foo # hit Ctrl-A to go to beginning of line (before foo), then Tab
> completing
I think this should perform command word completion. I will have to see
why it doesn't.
> Same thing if there's whitespace before the first word and cursor is
> somewhere there in the whitespace. Is this on purpose?
This is more bash trying to be helpful. I will look at whether or not
this is worth changing for the next version.
Chet
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