Re: bash-completion, tab and ambiguous globs

2016-02-19 Thread The Wanderer
On 2016-02-19 at 22:13, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 10:14:06AM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > >> Le nonidi 29 pluviôse, an CCXXIV, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : >> >>> It can be creepily smart, like knowing the branches in your >>> project when you do git checkout bla or things

Re: bash-completion, tab and ambiguous globs

2016-02-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 10:14:06AM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > Le nonidi 29 pluviôse, an CCXXIV, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : > > It can be creepily smart, like knowing the branches in your project > > when you do git checkout bla or things like that. Not bad. > > You mean what zsh already did in

Re: bash-completion, tab and ambiguous globs

2016-02-19 Thread The Wanderer
On 2016-02-19 at 13:28, Jean-Baptiste Thomas wrote: >> I wouldn't want to get by without tab completion either, but >> programmable completion as I've seen it implemented in packages >> provided by Debian seems to break some behaviors in the built-in >> tab completion on which I had come to rely,

Re: bash-completion, tab and ambiguous globs

2016-02-19 Thread Jean-Baptiste Thomas
> I wouldn't want to get by without tab completion either, but > programmable completion as I've seen it implemented in packages provided > by Debian seems to break some behaviors in the built-in tab completion > on which I had come to rely, so I always turn it off on my machines. By "turning off"

Re: bash-completion, tab and ambiguous globs

2016-02-18 Thread Curt
On 2016-02-18, The Wanderer wrote: > > I'm not sure I understand. How is this different from basic tab > completion, as opposed to the programmable completion which is provided > via the bash-completion package and is being discussed in this thread? > > I wouldn't want to get by without tab comple

Re: bash-completion, tab and ambiguous globs

2016-02-17 Thread The Wanderer
On 2016-02-17 at 12:43, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 17 February 2016 16:54:15 John L. Ries wrote: > >>> Seriously, when does bash-completion actually help someone on >>> the command line? The only time I notice it is when a pattern is >>> buggy and doesn't let me complete a filename even whe

Re: bash-completion, tab and ambiguous globs

2016-02-17 Thread Lisi Reisz
(435)867-8885 | > --| > > On Wednesday 2016-02-17 01:57, Anders Andersson wrote: > >Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 01:57:30 > >From: Anders Andersson > >To: Debian users mailing list > >Subject: Re: bash-completion, tab and ambiguous globs &

Re: bash-completion, tab and ambiguous globs

2016-02-17 Thread John L. Ries
Wednesday 2016-02-17 01:57, Anders Andersson wrote: Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 01:57:30 From: Anders Andersson To: Debian users mailing list Subject: Re: bash-completion, tab and ambiguous globs On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 11:15 AM, Jean-Baptiste Thomas wrote: In bash, typing, say, "ls x*y" t

Re: bash-completion, tab and ambiguous globs

2016-02-17 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 10:14:06AM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > Le nonidi 29 pluviôse, an CCXXIV, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : > > It can be creepily smart, like knowing the branches in your project > > when you do git checkout bla or things like that.

Re: bash-completion, tab and ambiguous globs

2016-02-17 Thread Nicolas George
Le nonidi 29 pluviôse, an CCXXIV, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : > It can be creepily smart, like knowing the branches in your project > when you do git checkout bla or things like that. Not bad. You mean what zsh already did in its default distribution fifteen years ago? And, of course, without break

Re: bash-completion, tab and ambiguous globs

2016-02-17 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 09:57:30AM +0100, Anders Andersson wrote: > On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 11:15 AM, Jean-Baptiste Thomas > wrote: > > In bash, typing, say, "ls x*y" then tab lists all the possible > > expansions of "x*y" on the next line, then print

Re: bash-completion, tab and ambiguous globs

2016-02-17 Thread Anders Andersson
On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 11:15 AM, Jean-Baptiste Thomas wrote: > In bash, typing, say, "ls x*y" then tab lists all the possible > expansions of "x*y" on the next line, then prints the command > line anew with "x*y" replaced by longest common stem. > > With bash-completion installed, "x*y" is summar

bash-completion, tab and ambiguous globs

2016-02-16 Thread Jean-Baptiste Thomas
In bash, typing, say, "ls x*y" then tab lists all the possible expansions of "x*y" on the next line, then prints the command line anew with "x*y" replaced by longest common stem. With bash-completion installed, "x*y" is summarily replaced by its first match. Is there any way to restore the normal