Bug#648264: rlwrap: tab completion skips words that are prefixes of other words
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 4:12 AM, Hans Lub hanslu...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I see your point. Thanks for pointing it out! bash, python, ... say: press Enter to accept, press TAB for all completions rlwrap says: press Enter to accept, press TAB for all *remaining* completions I find rlwrap more helpful, but expectations and muscle memory are to be reckoned with, so I will change its behaviour. A new rlwrap release (with lots of changes) is pending, and I don't think this bug warrants an interim bug-fix release, (though some of the other bugs do) This will probably have to wait until the 0.38 version, sorry! Hi Hans, thanks again for hearing me out, and for clarifying the difference. Let's call it a feature request instead of a bug. Maybe add an option to preserve the current, what I would call aggressive completion, behavior? CCing to debian bts for the record, downgrading to wishlist, bug will be fixed in next upstream release. -- mike :: mtmiller at ieee dot org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#648264: rlwrap: tab completion skips words that are prefixes of other words
Hello François [cc Mike] Desired behavior with user input of idtabtabtabtab... is to display id ide idea ideas all as possible completions. That is certainly not the desired or expected behaviour with readline! Using your words.txt (the one with 'ideas' and all of its prefixes): [hlub@karpaten] ~ rlwrap -f words.txt cat iTAB id ide idea ideas idTAB ide idea ideas ideTAB idea ideas ideas (pressing TAB now will only add a space, as there are no more completions) in the example above, iTABTABTAB is entered by me, the rest is displayed by readine. For clarity, I have 'set show-all-if-ambiguous On' in my .inputrc, but this doesn't change readline's completion behaviour. If I want i, I press i. rlwrap prints i and I accept it with ENTER If I want id, I press iTAB. rlwrap prints id and I accept it with ENTER If I want ide, I press iTABTAB. rlwrap prints ide etc. So, indeed, iTABTABTAB yields ideas as the only possible completion - as it should! regards Hans 2011/11/10 Francois Marier franc...@debian.org Hi Hans, For your information, Mike Miller has filed the bug below on the Debian tracker: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=648264 Cheers, Francois - Forwarded message from Mike Miller mtmil...@ieee.org - When the word completion list contains two valid words, one of which is a prefix of another, typing tab completes the longer word, skipping over the shorter. Discovered while following the instructions at [0] for configuring rlwrap with clojure. The completion list contains vec, vector, and vector? for example. Entering vetabtabtab yields vector? as the only completion, consuming the other valid word completions. A simpler artificial example: $ cat words.txt i id ide idea ideas $ rlwrap -f words.txt cat Repeatedly pressing tab will add one letter at a time until ideas is produced, same for the next word, and so on. [0] http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Clojure_Programming/Getting_Started - End forwarded message - -- Hans Lub tel/fax +31 (0)30 2899249 Dolomieten 74 3524 VH Utrecht (Nederland) hanslu...@gmail.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#648264: rlwrap: tab completion skips words that are prefixes of other words
Package: rlwrap Version: 0.37-1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream When the word completion list contains two valid words, one of which is a prefix of another, typing tab completes the longer word, skipping over the shorter. Discovered while following the instructions at [0] for configuring rlwrap with clojure. The completion list contains vec, vector, and vector? for example. Entering vetabtabtab yields vector? as the only completion, consuming the other valid word completions. A simpler artificial example: $ cat words.txt i id ide idea ideas $ rlwrap -f words.txt cat Repeatedly pressing tab will add one letter at a time until ideas is produced, same for the next word, and so on. Desired behavior with user input of idtabtabtabtab... is to display id ide idea ideas all as possible completions. [0] http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Clojure_Programming/Getting_Started -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.3 APT prefers proposed-updates APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (101, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages rlwrap depends on: ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libncurses5 5.7+20100313-5 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libreadline6 6.1-3 GNU readline and history libraries rlwrap recommends no packages. rlwrap suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
