Re: How does one disable completion when nothing but tabs or spaces is on the line?

2013-01-05 Thread Linda Walsh
Chet Ramey wrote: OK, if readline as it currently exists doesn't offer the feature you want, why not take a shot at writing it? You might find that others like it as well, though none of them have spoken up so far. This feature used to exist in 3.0. You fixed it to only work

Re: How does one disable completion when nothing but tabs or spaces is on the line?

2013-01-05 Thread Chet Ramey
On 1/5/13 8:36 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: Chet Ramey wrote: OK, if readline as it currently exists doesn't offer the feature you want, why not take a shot at writing it? You might find that others like it as well, though none of them have spoken up so far. This feature used to

Re: How does one disable completion when nothing but tabs or spaces is on the line?

2013-01-05 Thread Chet Ramey
On 1/5/13 9:08 PM, Chet Ramey wrote: I also noticed bash doesn't recognize META-key sequences in vi-mode. Yet it does recognize ESC-prefixed cursor-key sequences as not being ESC, but I should likely address that in a separate email so as not to confuse the issue. I'll take a

Re: How does one disable completion when nothing but tabs or spaces is on the line?

2013-01-05 Thread Linda Walsh
Chet Ramey wrote: On 1/5/13 8:36 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: Chet Ramey wrote: OK, if readline as it currently exists doesn't offer the feature you want, why not take a shot at writing it? You might find that others like it as well, though none of them have spoken up so far. This

Re: How does one disable completion when nothing but tabs or spaces is on the line?

2013-01-01 Thread Chet Ramey
On 12/31/12 4:48 PM, Linda A. Walsh wrote: If I have nothing but tabs or spaces on a line, how do I disable completion but have it return the char typed? (space or tab) -- and if bash is looking for a command, then execute any command. If you don't want TAB to perform completion, you have

Re: How does one disable completion when nothing but tabs or spaces is on the line?

2013-01-01 Thread Linda Walsh
Chet Ramey wrote: On 12/31/12 4:48 PM, Linda A. Walsh wrote: If I have nothing but tabs or spaces on a line, how do I disable completion but have it return the char typed? (space or tab) -- and if bash is looking for a command, then execute any command. If you don't want TAB to

Re: How does one disable completion when nothing but tabs or spaces is on the line?

2013-01-01 Thread Chet Ramey
On 1/1/13 6:31 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: Chet Ramey wrote: On 12/31/12 4:48 PM, Linda A. Walsh wrote: If I have nothing but tabs or spaces on a line, how do I disable completion but have it return the char typed? (space or tab) -- and if bash is looking for a command, then execute any

How does one disable completion when nothing but tabs or spaces is on the line?

2012-12-31 Thread Linda A. Walsh
If I have nothing but tabs or spaces on a line, how do I disable completion but have it return the char typed? (space or tab) -- and if bash is looking for a command, then execute any command. I.e. spacespacespacels works tabtabtabls sorta works (tab's are dropped/ignored) -- would want