Tab completion in eshell

Tab completion in eshell

[Simon Strobl]

Hello,

I think tab completion in eshell is not very practical: Suppose you
have two files, say

test.html
test2.html

and you type 

rm teTAB

then eshell completes to 'test2.html', instead of completing to 'test'
and displaying the possibilities. Because of this behaviour I have
already deleted a lot of files that I didn't want to delete.

How can I change this behaviour?

Simon

Re: Tab completion in eshell

[Matt Hodges]

>>>>> Simon Strobl writes:

 > then eshell completes to 'test2.html', instead of completing to
 > 'test' and displaying the possibilities. Because of this behaviour
 > I have already deleted a lot of files that I didn't want to delete.

 > How can I change this behaviour?

(setq eshell-cmpl-cycle-completions nil)

Re: Tab completion in eshell

[Thomas Piekarski]

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On Friday, the  2. July 2004 [UTC: 1088721527]
simon_strobl@yahoo.de (Simon Strobl) writes on gnu.emacs.help...
> 
> I think tab completion in eshell is not very practical: Suppose you
> have two files, say
> 
> test.html
> test2.html
> 
> and you type 
> 
> rm teTAB
> 
> then eshell completes to 'test2.html', instead of completing to
> 'test' and displaying the possibilities. Because of this behaviour I
> have already deleted a lot of files that I didn't want to delete.
> 

Hi,

do you ever have tried to press TAB a second time, because if the
amount of possible completitions is less than IMHO 5, the TAB cicles
through the possible completitions? The idea for this feature comes
from the tsh, if I configured eshell I used the customize, so I can
not give you the exact symbol. In the group >Application< you will
find the subgroup >The emacs shell<.

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Re: Tab completion in eshell

[Simon Strobl]

Hello Matt and Thomas,

thanks a lot for your tips.

Simon