Re: Feature Idea: Enhanced Tab Completion

2009-03-21 Thread Jan Schampera
Cam Cope wrote: Combine tab completion with history: when you put ! at the beginning of a command and use tab completion, it displays history results IMHO yet a new history expansion/editing/searching mechanism (there already are a few) would bloat it even more. But that's just my opinion. J.

Re: Feature Idea: Enhanced Tab Completion

2009-03-21 Thread Chet Ramey
Cam Cope wrote: Combine tab completion with history: when you put ! at the beginning of a command and use tab completion, it displays history results What do you mean by `history results'? -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRUc...@case.edu

Re: Feature Idea: Enhanced Tab Completion

2009-03-21 Thread Cam Cope
I'm sorry if the feature has already been implemented, I haven't heard of any way to implement it. This is what I was thinking of: Right now, if you run history, it will list out all the recently used commands, and then you could run !360 to run that history result. Often I'm looking for a

Re: Feature Idea: Enhanced Tab Completion

2009-03-21 Thread Ken Irving
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 01:01:51PM -0400, Cam Cope wrote: On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Chet Ramey chet.ra...@case.edu wrote: Cam Cope wrote: Combine tab completion with history: when you put ! at the beginning of a command and use tab completion, it displays history results What

Re: Feature Idea: Enhanced Tab Completion

2009-03-21 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 01:01:51PM EDT, Cam Cope wrote: I'm sorry if the feature has already been implemented, I haven't heard of any way to implement it. This is what I was thinking of: Right now, if you run history, it will list out all the recently used commands, and then you could run

Re: Feature Idea: Enhanced Tab Completion

2009-03-21 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 01:16:12PM EDT, Ken Irving wrote: This sounds a lot like what you get with the reverse-search-history command, bound to control-r (C-r), a great feature indeed. Priceless. I had posted the following obfuscated explanation a couple of hours ago but since I was

Re: Feature Idea: Enhanced Tab Completion

2009-03-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Chris Jones wrote: I had posted the following obfuscated explanation a couple of hours ago but since I was subscribed under a different address, it never made it to the list. :-( Actually it seems to have made it to the okay. No need for an unhappy face. You do not need to be subscribed

Re: Feature Idea: Enhanced Tab Completion

2009-03-21 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 04:59:36PM EDT, Bob Proulx wrote: Chris Jones wrote: I had posted the following obfuscated explanation a couple of hours ago but since I was subscribed under a different address, it never made it to the list. :-( Actually it seems to have made it to the