Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> writes: > I type: > > $ cat bad > > and press Tab twice. (The first does nothing visible.) This gives me > two completion choices: > > bad bad^Jfile > > If I press Ctrl-V Ctrl-J, the cursor moves to the next line. At this > point, further Tabbing (with or without characters) acts like a new > completion rather than a continuation of the previous completion, as > this bug report indicated.
You are inserting an unquoted whitespace, which ends the current word. The only bug is that readline doesn't perform command completion on the new line. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."