Re: vim like completion in bash?
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 04:52:01AM EST, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 07:33:39PM -0500, cga2000 wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 03:36:35PM EST, Franck Joncourt wrote:
[..]
> .
> Included in the bash package is the Programmable Completion Code, by
> Ian Macdonald.
> .
> [..]
> > "completion" means _smart_ completion: if you cd (eg.) it should
> > only accept directories. If you "cd abc + <TAB>" and there are only
> > regular files beginning with "abc" it will yell at you. If you
> > telnet it will only accept (and do completion for) hosts and ignore
> > everything else.
> >
> > etc.
> > So either your bash completion stuff is broken (see
> > /etc/bash_completion) or you are trying to vim to something that
> > your bash_completion script thinks you shouldn't be vimming to.
> Huh??
>
> I can verify Franck's assertion.
>
> You're guessing.
Try this:
$ mkdir ttt
$ touch ttt/aaa
$ gpdf ttt/a <Tab>
.. returns nothing.
Now ..
$ mv ttt/aaa ttt/aaa.pdf
$ touch ttt/a <Tab>
.. magically becomes
$ touch ttt/aaa.pdf
The point I was making is that with "programmable completion" you could
get the impression that files that you know are there are not found.
Hence that completion is not working properly.
> Please don't. I thought you tested it
As it turns out my initial test was invalid because although I was
sourcing /etc/bash_completion, the shopt "progcomp" flag was unset all
the time and I had not realized that. As a result I did not see what
other folks were seeing.
> and so I wasn't going to bother ...
Well, I did.
:-)
In any case, I thought the OP's initial post was fishy .. something was
wrong and I couldn't quite figure out what.
My impression is that if bug there is .. it is that bash should accept
pattern matching characters when doing completion via <Tab>.
It is both unnecessary why add a trailing "*" ..? Then a leading "*" ..
then "?"'s .. why not go the whole hog and accept regexes while we're at
it?
Just my two cents..
Thanks,
cga
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