Yeah, I noticed a similar thing the other day with the javac and java commands.
Depending on which program I'm using, tab-completion works out whether to select the source file or class file, and whatsmore it knows not to add the .class extension to the classfile. Absolutely brilliant. Andy On 1 Jul 2009, at 11:04, Tim Allen wrote: > Hi All > > Just had a taste of the effort that's gone in to Bash completion (this > on Debian Etch): > > > In a directory with a bunch of .c and .h files, including file1.c and > file1.h. Files under cvs version control. > > > rm file1.c > > cvs delete fi (TAB for completion) gives > > cvs delete file1.c (Bemusement - I was expecting file1.h, and needing > to backspace the h to c) > > cvs add fi (TAB for completion) gives > > cvs add file1.h !! > > > Pretty amazing. Played with touching/deleting a couple of dummy files, > don't get same effect, so I guess bash is going down into the > CVS/Entries file. /etc/bash_completion is 200+K long - lot of stuff in > there on all the common commands. > > > Cheers > > Tim > > -- > Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2009-07-07 20:00 > Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ > Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset > List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2009-07-07 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
