I really never imagined my "lazy keyboard habits" would lead to all this discovery.
Thanks. JN On 2018-04-06 06:07 AM, Brett Delmage wrote: > On Thu, 5 Apr 2018, Dianne Skoll wrote: > >> On Thu, 5 Apr 2018 10:16:29 -0400 >> J C Nash <profjcn...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> And. ... tab on first couple of letters of symlinked directory gives >>> no /, but hitting tab again gives the /. Went back to my local bash >>> and same behaviour. >> >> That's a smart way to work. Sometimes you want the slash and sometimes >> not. >> >> cd symlink/ # want the slash >> rm symlink # don't want the slash - rm symlink/ will fail >> >> Clever bash! :) > > So I thought I had a vague idea of how command completion works (i.e. 'some > scripts in an /etc directory somewhere that > I saw years ago' :-) > > This discussion prompted me to look it up... and I got waay deeper than I > planned, again ;-) > > Reading this article about 'under the hood' > > https://spin.atomicobject.com/2016/02/14/bash-programmable-completion/ > (part 2) > > way down, I discovered more about readline. And buried in that, a config > option related to symlinks > > set mark-symlinked-directories off (aha!) > > which is described in the bash man page, around line 1758 (you have to love > docs that are this extensive...): > > mark-symlinked-directories (Off) > If set to On, completed names which are symbolic links to directories have a > slash appended (subject to the value of > mark-directories). > > So it looks like this symlink behavior can vary by distro -- but is easily > configurable with a line in inputrc. > > Who knew. I discovered lots more about readline config I never new before. I > really enjoy the questions on this list > because I often learn something new. > > -- > Congratulations and thanks to the new OCLUG directors! > > Brett > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux _______________________________________________ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux
