Re: No Color for Bash Completion Results

[Roger]

> On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 01:58:39PM -0600, Dennis Williamson wrote:
>On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Roger <rogerx.oss@gmail.com> wrote:
>> When using bash completion on files within local folder, ie. "$ ls f<tab>"
>> showing results for files starting with char "f" -- or any char(s) you may
>> specify, results are not provided in color when bash, terminal and ls are
>> configured for using color.
>>
>> I do believe, results for bash completion on files were at one time in color.

>Zsh does that and fish does match highlighting in color. I don't
>remember ever seeing Bash do it, though.

OK.  Maybe not then.  But thinking on it, maybe I was using an incantation of
ZSH at one time using "$" or "#" for the prompt.

Or, maybe the command completion files was hacked to pipe to 'ls --color'.

<shrugs>

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Roger
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