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From: | Quentin Spencer |
Subject: | Re: tab completion and readline |
Date: | Fri, 23 May 2003 18:29:02 -0600 |
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Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
I just tested this (octave from the command line, not emacs--version 2.1.48 on Red Hat 9), and it seems that tab completion works for subdirectories of the current directory, but not beyond that. For example, if you want to do a "cd xxxx/yyyy", and you type "cd x" and tab, it completes xxxx/ , but it won't complete the yyyy by typing "y", which is what you would expect from a bash prompt. I hadn't noticed this before, mainly because I don't tend to move around the filesystem much inside octave, but I can see how this would be a problem if you have a large directory structure.Hm, I can't even remember if it ever worked for directories and filenames as bash does. But there is a workaround -- use it from within the (X)Emacs mode for Octave. I just tested it on Debian stable (with octave 2.0.17) andunstable (with octave 2.1.48) and it worked consistently: start typing 'cd xxxx' where xxxx is the beginning of a current subdirectory name, andtab completes it. AFAIK it is (X)Emacs doing that, though.
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