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 two choices:
1. Bind TAB to self-insert
2. Disable completion with the `disable-completion' readline variable
If you want to insert a TAB without having it perform completion while
leaving it bound to `complete', you can:
1. Bind some key sequence to `tab-insert' and use that (readline binds
M-TAB to that, but bash overrides it)
2. Use the key sequence bound to `quoted-insert' (^V by default) before
typing TAB.
> NOTE: I tried binding a key like 'backquote' ("`") to the completion
> character,
> but it seems rebinding in readline doesn't work consistently. Is that a bug?
Who can tell? You don't provide any information that would allow anyone
to reproduce it.
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