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Re: How does one disable completion when nothing but tabs or spaces is o


From: Linda Walsh
Subject: Re: How does one disable completion when nothing but tabs or spaces is on the line?
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 15:31:29 -0800
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Chet Ramey wrote:
On 12/31/12 4:48 PM, Linda A. Walsh wrote:
If I have nothing but tabs or spaces on a line, how do I disable completion
but have it return the char typed? (space or tab) -- and if bash is looking
for a command, then execute any command.

If you don't want TAB to perform completion, you have two choices:
I did not say I wanted to disable TAB completion. I want a conditional disabling similar to that which disables empty-command-completion, but I want it:
1) ANY time the cursor is in column 0
2) Any time there is only white space on the line before the cursor.


That's not something that any of the suggestions I've seen allow for.


If you want to insert a TAB without having it perform completion while
leaving it bound to `complete', you can:

1.  Bind some key sequence to `tab-insert' and use that (readline binds
    M-TAB to that, but bash overrides it)
2.  Use the key sequence bound to `quoted-insert' (^V by default) before
    typing TAB.
----
   Neither would work with normal text processing -- either cut/paste
or a program reading a script and driving a bash session via a pty or similar.


NOTE: I tried binding a key like 'backquote' ("`") to the completion
character,
but it seems rebinding in readline doesn't work consistently.  Is that a bug?

Who can tell?  You don't provide any information that would allow anyone
to reproduce it.
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 Create an inputrc file with:

"`": completion
"TAB": self-insert

 I also have tried:

"TAB": tab-insert


   I also noticed bash doesn't recognize META-key sequences in vi-mode.
Yet it does recognize ESC-prefixed cursor-key sequences as not being "ESC",
but I should likely address that in a separate email so as not to confuse the issue.




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