On 2/3/24 6:23 PM, Mike Jonkmans wrote:
esc * is bound to insert-completions
It's bound to vi-complete, which bash replaces with something that does
the pathname expansion that POSIX requires.
How can I find this out?
You can assume that the bash vi mode behaves as POSIX specifies:
https:
On Sat, Feb 03, 2024 at 04:59:08PM -0500, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 2/2/24 5:15 PM, Mike Jonkmans wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 02, 2024 at 09:50:46AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > On Fri, Feb 02, 2024 at 03:39:54PM +0100, Mike Jonkmans wrote:
> > > > [ mkdir test; cd test; touch file1 file2 ]
> > > > Go
On Sat, Feb 03, 2024 at 03:43:45PM -0500, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 2/2/24 9:39 AM, Mike Jonkmans wrote:
> > From the manual, glob-expand-word:
>
> glob-expand-word doesn't work that great in vi command mode, mostly for
> the reasons you suspect. What made you use it over the standard vi mode
> bind
On 2/2/24 5:15 PM, Mike Jonkmans wrote:
On Fri, Feb 02, 2024 at 09:50:46AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Fri, Feb 02, 2024 at 03:39:54PM +0100, Mike Jonkmans wrote:
[ mkdir test; cd test; touch file1 file2 ]
Going into `vi-command' mode on the line `ls *' puts the cursor on the `*'.
Then `glo
On 2/2/24 9:39 AM, Mike Jonkmans wrote:
From the manual, glob-expand-word:
The word before point is treated as a pattern for pathname expansion,
and the list of matching filenames is inserted, replacing the word.
If a numeric argument is supplied, an asterisk is appended before
pathn
On Fri, Feb 02, 2024 at 09:50:46AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 02, 2024 at 03:39:54PM +0100, Mike Jonkmans wrote:
> > [ mkdir test; cd test; touch file1 file2 ]
> >
> > Going into `vi-command' mode on the line `ls *' puts the cursor on the `*'.
> > Then `glob-expand-word' does nothin
On Fri, Feb 02, 2024 at 03:39:54PM +0100, Mike Jonkmans wrote:
> [ mkdir test; cd test; touch file1 file2 ]
>
> Going into `vi-command' mode on the line `ls *' puts the cursor on the `*'.
> Then `glob-expand-word' does nothing with the `*', it just inserts a space.
> Resulting in `ls *' (cursor s
