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Re: make first different character bold when showing completions ala ema


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: make first different character bold when showing completions ala emacs
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 13:30:42 -0400
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On 10/9/15 9:14 PM, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> # dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/phpmyadmin_4%3a4.<TAB> shows
> phpmyadmin_4%3a4.4.15-1_all.deb   phpmyadmin_4%3a4.5.0.2-2_all.deb
> # dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/phpmyadmin_4%3a4.
> 
> Can you please make the first different character bold, like emacs does,

There is an option in readline-7.0 that will cause completion to display
the common prefix of a set of possible completions in a distinctive
color.  This has essentially the same visual effect.

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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/



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