On 1/23/10 1:04 PM, Peng Yu wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: >> On 1/18/10 9:49 AM, Peng Yu wrote: >>> Suppose I have 'some.sh' in my command line, and my cursor is at '.' >>> >>> $some.sh >>> >>> Suppose there is only one command that start with 'some', which is >>> 'something.sh'. After I type TAB, I will have 'something.sh.sh' in my >>> command line. >>> >>> $something.sh.sh >>> >>> I'm wondering if there is a way to configure bash, so that I will get >>> 'something.sh' rather than 'something.sh.sh'. >> >> There is nothing directly analogous in bash. The closest thing is the >> `skip-completed-text' readline variable in bash-4.1/readline-6.1, but >> that will not help in this case. > > Can I request this feature be added in future version of bash?
Thanks for the suggestion. I will consider it for a future release. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/