Re: Idea: *.p<TAB> completion

[Chet Ramey]

On 9/1/19 2:29 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> 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.  

Why would the shell do that? POSIX doesn't have anything to say about emacs
mode editing or word completion, so why would POSIXLY_CORRECT have any
effect here?


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