On 3/16/17 1:49 PM, Roee Bar wrote:
> There is no ambiguous in dabbrev-expand - it is well defined what the
> completion should be: each key press cycles through the matches from most
> recent to oldest match. This is different than TAB completion, where it is
> possible to have several matches so it makes sense to display them. That is
> also the dabbrev-expand behaviour in tcsh when ‘autolist’ (i.e.
> 'show-all-if-ambiguous’ ) is set.
When show-all-if-ambiguous is set, readline displays the matches if
there is more than one possible completion. It doesn't matter which
completion function you're using; the behavior of the variable is consistent.
In bash's case, dabbrev-expand (which first appeared in bash-4.0) is built
on top of readline's menu completion function, and inherits its behavior.
That means that dabbrev-expand has always honored show-all-if-ambiguous,
since menu completion has honored it since before dabbrev-expand was
introduced. I'm reluctant to change it now.
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