Re: bash-completion, tab and ambiguous globs

2016-02-19 Thread The Wanderer
On 2016-02-19 at 22:13, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 10:14:06AM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > >> Le nonidi 29 pluviôse, an CCXXIV, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : >> >>> It can be creepily smart, like knowing the branches in your >>> project when you do git checkout bla or

Re: bash-completion, tab and ambiguous globs

2016-02-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 10:14:06AM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > Le nonidi 29 pluviôse, an CCXXIV, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : > > It can be creepily smart, like knowing the branches in your project > > when you do git checkout bla or things like that. Not bad. > > You mean what zsh already did

Re: bash-completion, tab and ambiguous globs

2016-02-19 Thread The Wanderer
On 2016-02-19 at 13:28, Jean-Baptiste Thomas wrote: >> I wouldn't want to get by without tab completion either, but >> programmable completion as I've seen it implemented in packages >> provided by Debian seems to break some behaviors in the built-in >> tab completion on which I had come to

Re: bash-completion, tab and ambiguous globs

2016-02-19 Thread Jean-Baptiste Thomas
> I wouldn't want to get by without tab completion either, but > programmable completion as I've seen it implemented in packages provided > by Debian seems to break some behaviors in the built-in tab completion > on which I had come to rely, so I always turn it off on my machines. By "turning

Re: bash-completion, tab and ambiguous globs

2016-02-18 Thread Curt
On 2016-02-18, The Wanderer wrote: > > I'm not sure I understand. How is this different from basic tab > completion, as opposed to the programmable completion which is provided > via the bash-completion package and is being discussed in this thread? > > I wouldn't want to

Re: bash-completion, tab and ambiguous globs

2016-02-17 Thread The Wanderer
On 2016-02-17 at 12:43, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 17 February 2016 16:54:15 John L. Ries wrote: > >>> Seriously, when does bash-completion actually help someone on >>> the command line? The only time I notice it is when a pattern is >>> buggy and doesn't let me complete a filename even

Re: bash-completion, tab and ambiguous globs

2016-02-17 Thread Lisi Reisz
gt; --| > > On Wednesday 2016-02-17 01:57, Anders Andersson wrote: > >Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 01:57:30 > >From: Anders Andersson <pipat...@gmail.com> > >To: Debian users mailing list <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > >Subject: Re: bash-c

Re: bash-completion, tab and ambiguous globs

2016-02-17 Thread John L. Ries
01:57, Anders Andersson wrote: Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 01:57:30 From: Anders Andersson <pipat...@gmail.com> To: Debian users mailing list <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: bash-completion, tab and ambiguous globs On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 11:15 AM, Jean-Baptiste Thomas

Re: bash-completion, tab and ambiguous globs

2016-02-17 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 10:14:06AM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > Le nonidi 29 pluviôse, an CCXXIV, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : > > It can be creepily smart, like knowing the branches in your project > > when you do git checkout bla or things like

Re: bash-completion, tab and ambiguous globs

2016-02-17 Thread Nicolas George
Le nonidi 29 pluviôse, an CCXXIV, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : > It can be creepily smart, like knowing the branches in your project > when you do git checkout bla or things like that. Not bad. You mean what zsh already did in its default distribution fifteen years ago? And, of course, without

Re: bash-completion, tab and ambiguous globs

2016-02-17 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 09:57:30AM +0100, Anders Andersson wrote: > On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 11:15 AM, Jean-Baptiste Thomas > wrote: > > In bash, typing, say, "ls x*y" then tab lists all the possible > > expansions of "x*y"

Re: bash-completion, tab and ambiguous globs

2016-02-17 Thread Anders Andersson
On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 11:15 AM, Jean-Baptiste Thomas wrote: > In bash, typing, say, "ls x*y" then tab lists all the possible > expansions of "x*y" on the next line, then prints the command > line anew with "x*y" replaced by longest common stem. > > With

bash-completion, tab and ambiguous globs

2016-02-16 Thread Jean-Baptiste Thomas
In bash, typing, say, "ls x*y" then tab lists all the possible expansions of "x*y" on the next line, then prints the command line anew with "x*y" replaced by longest common stem. With bash-completion installed, "x*y" is summarily replaced by its first match. Is there any way to restore the