Re: Idea: *.p<TAB> completion

[Chet Ramey]

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".

It does (well, the default completion does, maybe programmable completion
for diff does too). But the two possible completions differ immediately --
in the first character -- so what are you going to do? Rather than remove
the word, as normal completion would do, the default bash completion leaves
it alone.

> Or maybe as a bonus it could complete "a.pdf  b.pdf" via a different key.

You want it to insert the possible completions? Use C-x* in emacs mode:

glob-expand-word (C-x *)
       The word before point is  treated  as  a  pattern  for  pathname
       expansion,  and  the  list  of  matching  filenames is inserted,
       replacing the word.  If  a  numeric  argument  is  supplied,  an
       asterisk is appended before pathname expansion.

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