Yes, the tab behavior is readline at work, a tab indicates a request
to finish a file name - e.g. Typing the following (in any version of
J in Linux console)
fread 'My comp[TAB]
results in:
fread 'My complicated file~name
(a name I made up to show this off) - I find this little trick very
useful. It is a tiny bit inconvenient that the ful name is followed
by a blank, so a backspace is required to form the correct string for
fread... The space makes more sense when used on the Linux command
line where the space is almost always appropriate after a name.
On the command line -
jkt@set1:~$ rm My[TAB]
results in
jkt@set1:~$ rm My\ complicated\ file~name
very handy for housekeeping. I more than one name qualifies, a signal
is sent and if you hit a second tab, then all the possibilities are
listed (this is also true inside a j session) - this is where your
list is coming from when you hit 2 tabs.
I really like the history file, the up/down arrows and nae
completion, etc. - the main reasons I've always preferred jconsole
over an IDE.
- joey
At 10:59 PM -0400 11/04/26, Raul Miller wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:13 PM, David Ward Lambert
><[email protected]> wrote:
>> 2 consecutive tab characters cause jconsole to list my directory.
>> They can be in a comment, a string, or simply two tabs followed by enter
>> key. I am a fan of the whitespace language...
>>
>> $ jconsole
>> JVERSION
>> Engine: j701/2011-01-10/11:25
>> Library: 7.01.048
>> Platform: Linux 64
>> Installer: j701a_linux64.sh
>> InstallPath: /usr/local/j64-701
>
>I think jconsole is using gnu readline.
>
>You should be able to change this behavior (which I think is its default).
>
>http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/readline.html#SEC9
>
>J7 should probably be distributed with a initialization file, for readline.
>
>--
>Raul
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