On 1/19/14, 5:18 PM, Ernest Adrogué wrote:
> If I bind TAB to `menu-complete' and set `menu-complete-display-prefix', the
> first TAB displays a list of possible completions, which is what I wanted,
> but it also inserts the first entry from the list of possible completions,
> which is not what I wanted.
I see. This is new information, and a new requirement: you seem to have
show-all-if-ambiguous set.
> For example, if I do:
>
> $ cd <TAB>
>
> it displays the possible completions:
>
> bar/ fooa/ foob/
>
> and inserts `bar/'. But `bar/' is not the longest common prefix, the empty
> string is.
This is how bash-4.2 behaves. Bash-4.3 will behave like you want.
Chet
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