Re: How does one disable completion when nothing but tabs or spaces is on the line?

2013-01-05 Thread Linda Walsh
Chet Ramey wrote: On 1/5/13 8:36 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: Chet Ramey wrote: OK, if readline as it currently exists doesn't offer the feature you want, why not take a shot at writing it? You might find that others like it as well, though none of them have spoken up so far. This feat

Re: How does one disable completion when nothing but tabs or spaces is on the line?

2013-01-05 Thread Chet Ramey
On 1/5/13 9:08 PM, Chet Ramey wrote: >>"I also noticed bash doesn't recognize META-key sequences in vi-mode. >>Yet it does recognize ESC-prefixed cursor-key sequences as not being >> "ESC", >>but I should likely address that in a separate email so as not to confuse >>the issue." >

Re: How does one disable completion when nothing but tabs or spaces is on the line?

2013-01-05 Thread Chet Ramey
On 1/5/13 8:36 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: > > > Chet Ramey wrote: > >> OK, if readline as it currently exists doesn't offer the feature you want, >> why not take a shot at writing it? You might find that others like it as >> well, though none of them have spoken up so far. > > This feature

Re: How does one disable completion when nothing but tabs or spaces is on the line?

2013-01-05 Thread Linda Walsh
Chet Ramey wrote: OK, if readline as it currently exists doesn't offer the feature you want, why not take a shot at writing it? You might find that others like it as well, though none of them have spoken up so far. This feature used to exist in 3.0. You "fixed it" to only work

Re: devel branch build failure

2013-01-05 Thread Chet Ramey
On 1/4/13 1:12 PM, Raphaƫl Droz wrote: > Note: > When compiling the -devel branch with the correct/default relstatus > (-DDEBUG) then, when running the new build, Ctrl+C throws > itrace("bash_event_hook"); but then Ctrl+C is not usable again. > [ newline is needed before Ctrl+C becomes usable agai

Re: Question on periods in function names

2013-01-05 Thread Chet Ramey
On 1/5/13 9:11 AM, muji wrote: > Hello! > > According to this: > > http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/gotchas.html > > As of version 3 periods in function names are not allowed, I quote: > > # As of version 3 of Bash, periods are not allowed within function names. > > Yet I am using: > > GNU bash,

Re: A feature proposal

2013-01-05 Thread Chet Ramey
On 1/5/13 4:06 AM, yati sagade wrote: > Hi > I have found many a time that in my huge home directory tree, I forget what > directory contains exactly what. e.g., in ~/Projects/ml/py I might keep the > solutions to my machine learning course I wrote in Python, but sometimes, > we all can be bit shak

Re: A feature proposal

2013-01-05 Thread yati sagade
Sorry for the incomplete message! Then , we can also have ls -a print out (parts of) these summaries whenever available depending upon some option passed to ls. I tried to achieve this for myself by creating a bash function, but that (naturally) goes into infinite recursion and is not a very neat

A feature proposal

2013-01-05 Thread yati sagade
Hi I have found many a time that in my huge home directory tree, I forget what directory contains exactly what. e.g., in ~/Projects/ml/py I might keep the solutions to my machine learning course I wrote in Python, but sometimes, we all can be bit shaky with naming directories and later have to hunt