smarter bash completion

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Thu Aug 25 15:22:19 UTC 2005


Vram wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 23:41 +0100, Lee Braiden wrote:
>> On Wednesday 24 August 2005 14:24, Alvin Thompson wrote:
>> > is there any way to do these things on ubuntu?
>> 
>> Others have already answered this, so I'll not add to it :)
>> 
>> > if so why not make it the default?
>> 
>> It's slower, and can be annoying at times, from what I recall.  I don't
>> remember exactly why, but I turned it off soon after turning it on :)
>> 
> 
> 
> Slower??
> 
> Can you explain "Slower?"
> 
> You can type faster then tab completion?

I can - sometimes.  otoh, that's only useful when I already know what I want
to type.  I need all the help I can get :-)
-- 
derek





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