|
From: | Ilkka Virta |
Subject: | Re: Expand first before asking the question "Display all xxx possibilities?" |
Date: | Thu, 6 Aug 2020 15:13:30 +0300 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.11.0 |
On 5.8. 22:21, Chris Elvidge wrote:
On 05/08/2020 02:55 pm, Chet Ramey wrote:On 8/2/20 6:55 PM, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:how about doing the expansion first, so entering $ zz /jidanni_backups/da<TAB> would then change into>> $ zz /jidanni_backups/dan_home_bkp with below it the question >> Display all 113 possibilities? (y or n) What happens if you have:dan_home-bkp, dan_home_nobkp, dan-home-bkp, dan-nohome-bkp, dan_nohome-bkp (etc.) in /jidanni_backups/?Which do you choose for the first expansion?
I think they meant the case where all the files matching the given beginning have a longer prefix in common. The shell expands that prefix to the command line after asking to show all possibilities.
$ rm * $ touch dan_home_bkp{1..199} $ ls -l da[TAB] Display all 199 possibilities? (y or n) [n] $ ls -l dan_home_bkp[cursor here]So the shell has to fill in the common part anyway, and it might as well do it first, without asking.
(Which just so happens to be what Zsh does...) -- Ilkka Virta / itvirta@iki.fi
[Prev in Thread] | Current Thread | [Next in Thread] |