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'cd' and tab completion
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
'cd' and tab completion |
Date: |
Thu, 30 Jan 2003 18:35:30 -0600 |
On 30-Jan-2003, Laurent Jacques <address@hidden> wrote:
| I used to push on tab for directory completion inside octave when I change of
| current directory with 'cd'.
|
| Is-it normal that this completion doesn't work for more than one level of
| subdirectory (like in bash) ?
| Is-it normal also that it doesn't recognize the keyword '..' to go up of the
| current dir ? Same for '~' ?
|
| I'm agree with you that this is a tiny problem for octavers, but it's a very
| useful feature to travel through the directory tree specially when we have a
| lot of data and scripts which are classified at various places.
What version of Octave are you using?
I think filename completion was broken for a long time in the
development sources, but with 2.1.43, I think it is somewhat
functional. There are still some problems, because Octave uses things
like ./ and / as operators, so if we also want variable and function
name completion to work, it is harder to know when to treat these as
word separators.
jwe
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