On Tue 17 Nov 2015 at 21:18:57 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 06:56:40PM +0000, Brian wrote: > > [...] > > > My example: gv does not recognise the PDF file 'test' as something it is > > *capable of opening*. With 'test' as the only file in a directory the > > command gv plus TAB completion doesn't produce 'gv test'. But 'gv test' > > opens the file, which is all that matters. > > The TAB thing is your shell's autocompletion talking, gv isn't involved. > And yes, shell's autocompletion usually relies on the file name pattern > (dot-ending, aka "extension" is but a special case of that).
David Wright said something similar. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/11/msg00631.html The file "example" is a PDF. 'gs exa' and 'mupdf exa' TAB complete the file name. gv and xpdf do not. Is the shell being discriminatory?
