Tab completion is not perfect, but you can switch local/remote completion by using Meta-Tab (or Esc+Tab) combination.
2014-08-29 1:33 GMT+04:00 Dan39 <dda...@gmail.com>: > Hello, I have been using lftp for a while and love it! Thank you very much. > > When mirroring it would be a huge help if it was possible to have > multiple source directories. example: If i do "mirror a b c stuff/" it > will mirror the remote directories a b and c into stuff/ > > but with this also brings to light the problem of tab completions. how > would lftp know when to tab complete for remote or local directories, > besides knowing the first one you start typing is of course the remote > directory. the best way im thinking is to add an option like "-o > local/" and always tab complete for remote directory until the -o > option is typed (tho if -o is not given the last directory would still > be used as local directory so that old scripts work as expected) > > and it already looks like this is a bug with mirror and tab > completion. whenever i type the argument for an option, like "-x git" > it will start tab completing for the local directories when I want it > to tab complete for remote. it seems this is since i typed the word > "git" which is not preceded with a -/-- > > doing "mirror sourcedir target/ -x hi" actually does work and allows > me to type the directories with proper tab completion and still add > the options, but the man section for mirror specifies to do the > options before source/target directories, Are there any potential > problems/bugs with putting the options at end? > > It looks like --exclude=hi also works at beginning of command and > doesnt break the tab completion after it, but that is a lot more > typing :P > > Thanks, > Dan > _______________________________________________ > lftp mailing list > lftp@uniyar.ac.ru > http://univ.uniyar.ac.ru/mailman/listinfo/lftp > -- Alexander.
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