Re: completion gobbles partial match string

2010-05-05 Thread jidanni
CR Should readline do this only if there are multiple matches? Getting over my head... I'll trust your judgment.

Re: completion gobbles partial match string

2010-05-03 Thread Chet Ramey
On 5/1/10 8:46 PM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: set show-all-if-ambiguous on This is the problem. I'll take a look. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRUc...@case.edu

Re: completion gobbles partial match string

2010-05-03 Thread Chet Ramey
On 5/3/10 9:23 PM, Chet Ramey wrote: On 5/1/10 8:46 PM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: set show-all-if-ambiguous on This is the problem. I'll take a look. This is an interesting issue. The problem is as I described: globbing can result in multiple matches without any common prefix, which

completion gobbles partial match string

2010-05-01 Thread jidanni
Put the cursor after the word list and hit TAB: # find /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*list #|cpio -o|ssh 192.168.44.4 cpio -ivdm Emacssources.list eeepc.list tw.list # find /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ #|cpio -o|ssh 192.168.44.4 cpio -ivdm Notice how we are shown the completions, but then the

Re: completion gobbles partial match string

2010-05-01 Thread Chet Ramey
On 4/30/10 2:51 AM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Put the cursor after the word list and hit TAB: # find /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*list #|cpio -o|ssh 192.168.44.4 cpio -ivdm Emacssources.list eeepc.list tw.list # find /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ #|cpio -o|ssh 192.168.44.4 cpio -ivdm

Re: completion gobbles partial match string

2010-05-01 Thread jidanni
CR == Chet Ramey chet.ra...@case.edu writes: CR I have to assume that you're using programmable completion, CR and the compspec for `find' doesn't impose the same restriction. Same happens with cat or :, not only find. It doesn't happen for # su - nobody And I've isolated the problem to somewhere