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Re: [GUI] cd and auto-completion


From: Carnë Draug
Subject: Re: [GUI] cd and auto-completion
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 13:50:21 +0000

On 17 December 2013 13:42, CdeMills <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> some feature I miss from zsh is the ability to complete dir inside some
> tree. Let met explain: I have some tree organised as f.i.
>
> data/meas/devices/dev1/
>
> What I would like is to be able to type
> cd d[TAB]m[TAB]d[TAB]d[TAB]
> and land into dev1. Actually, the auto-completion seems to work for one
> level of hierachy:
> cd d[TAB]
> permits to arrive into data, but pushing [TAB] once again proposes
> completions from file and dir at the level of data.
>
> The idea is to rescan each dir after the auto-completion successfully
> proposes an unique completion.
> Would it be an acceptable feature ? A hard work ?

This works if you quote the path. As in:

cd "d[TAB]m[TAB]d[TAB]d[TAB]

Still does not work if you start with an absolute path

cd "/usr/[TAB]

does not work anymore.

Carnë


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