On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 04:52:01AM EST, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 07:33:39PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 03:36:35PM EST, Franck Joncourt wrote:
[..] > . > Included in the bash package is the Programmable Completion Code, by > Ian Macdonald. > . > [..] > > "completion" means _smart_ completion: if you cd (eg.) it should > > only accept directories. If you "cd abc + <TAB>" and there are only > > regular files beginning with "abc" it will yell at you. If you > > telnet it will only accept (and do completion for) hosts and ignore > > everything else. > > > > etc. > > So either your bash completion stuff is broken (see > > /etc/bash_completion) or you are trying to vim to something that > > your bash_completion script thinks you shouldn't be vimming to. > Huh?? > > I can verify Franck's assertion. > > You're guessing. Try this: $ mkdir ttt $ touch ttt/aaa $ gpdf ttt/a <Tab> .. returns nothing. Now .. $ mv ttt/aaa ttt/aaa.pdf $ touch ttt/a <Tab> .. magically becomes $ touch ttt/aaa.pdf The point I was making is that with "programmable completion" you could get the impression that files that you know are there are not found. Hence that completion is not working properly. > Please don't. I thought you tested it As it turns out my initial test was invalid because although I was sourcing /etc/bash_completion, the shopt "progcomp" flag was unset all the time and I had not realized that. As a result I did not see what other folks were seeing. > and so I wasn't going to bother ... Well, I did. :-) In any case, I thought the OP's initial post was fishy .. something was wrong and I couldn't quite figure out what. My impression is that if bug there is .. it is that bash should accept pattern matching characters when doing completion via <Tab>. It is both unnecessary why add a trailing "*" ..? Then a leading "*" .. then "?"'s .. why not go the whole hog and accept regexes while we're at it? Just my two cents.. Thanks, cga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]