Re: tab completion and readline

[Quentin Spencer]

Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

> 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) and
> unstable (with octave 2.1.48) and it worked consistently: start typing 
> 'cd xxxx' where xxxx is the beginning of a current subdirectory name, and
> tab completes it. AFAIK it is (X)Emacs doing that, though.
>  
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.

Quentin





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