On 11/20/12 5:40 PM, smu johnson wrote: > Hi. > > If you are in regular emacs mode in Bash, and you hit Esc twice, it acts as > an auto-complete, similar to just hitting tab.
Yes. Readline has behaved this way for many years, since at least
bash-1.14. It's present for compatibility with ksh (first ksh88, then
ksh93).
Chet
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