Re: Idea: *.p<TAB> completion

[Dennis Clarke]

On 9/1/19 11:10 AM, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> $ ls *.pdf
> a.pdf  b.pdf
> $ diff *.p<TAB>
>
> At this point <TAB> should complete "*.pdf".
>
> Or maybe as a bonus it could complete "a.pdf  b.pdf" via a different key.

So long as all these extensions and ideas get turned off by the env var
POSIXLY_CORRECT then the shell can make coffee for you.  Personally I am
of the opinion that a tool in the Linux/UNIX world should do one thing
well and then stop.  Otherwise we may as well just make Windows 12.

Dennis