On Mar 5, 2007, at 11:09 AM, Martin Baehr wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 11:59:08AM -0600, Myrddin Emrys wrote:
>> linux> rm ab*<tab>
>> Ab*     Absolute.txt, Abstract.txt, Abrasive.txt...
>> linux> rm Ab*
>
> this is exactly what i am afraid of, because if i do not notice  
> that the
> case chsnged and my intention is to remove only ab* but NOT A* then  
> this
> is dangerous. same with any situation where i'd overwrite a file.

I second that. I think the original sentiment expressed was the  
correct one:

On Mar 5, 2007, at 9:59 AM, Myrddin Emrys wrote:
> I think that tab completion should only modify the command line if  
> there is a single possible change.

(As an aside, this would be awesome to see on OS X, which stores case  
in filenames but ignores case for filename comparison by default.)

-Ben

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