On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 08:20 +0800, Joel Bryan Juliano wrote: > On 10/11/07, Aaron C. de Bruyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > Today a website generated a PDF file for me automatically and > firefox popped up and asked if I wanted to download it. I hit > 'OK' and it saved 'genpdf.asp' into my downloads folder. I > was surprised to find bash wouldn't tab-complete the > filename. > > Apparently there is new (newer than dapper) bash completion > code that restricts completed files based on the initial part > of the command. (/etc/bash_completion) > > I think this sucks. I spend a lot of time at the bash prompt > and use tab-completion constantly. When you are in bash, I > would expect you sorta know what you are doing. > > One example of where I *will* have issues is if I upgrade my > home media server from Dapper to Gutsy. > It stores all the video from my camcorder, copies of all my > CDs and DVDs, pictures from digital cameras, etc... > Most of the files don't have an extension because file > extensions are sorta useless in Linux. > > If I upgrade to Gutsy it appears I won't be able to type in > 'mplayer StarTrek-Wrath<TAB>' and have it fill in > 'StarTrek-Wrath_of_Kahn'. >
you can of course modify tab-completion by modifying /etc/bash_completion and the files in /etc/bash_completion.d that might be what you want to do. there are lots and lots of reasons to have program-specific tab-completion. for instance, having acroread complete only .pdf files means that the small number of pdf's in my home directory are easy to find when i start acroread. matt > > > > -- > "object-oriented programming is really just a common sense extension > of structured programming" - Roger Sessions -- Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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