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From: Galen Boyer <galenboyer@hotpop.com>
Subject: Re: eshell: Support old-style completion and cycling completion?
Date: 16 Feb 2003 20:15:12 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uel67a372.fsf@hotpop.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 84k7g0x9oz.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de

On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de wrote:

> Hm.  Thinking some more, it's possible that a behavior that I would
> like is this:
> 
> If there is a common prefix for all completions, insert that.  If
> there is more than one possible completion, beep.  After the next
> TAB, show all possible completions.  After the next TAB, complete to
> the first completion.  So it's a kind of a hybrid between old-style
> and cycling style.

The tab following the first completion buffer scrolls that completion
buffer.  How should the user retain that functionality?

-- 
Galen deForest Boyer
Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-17  2:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-16 20:16 eshell: Support old-style completion and cycling completion? Kai Großjohann
2003-02-17  2:15 ` Galen Boyer [this message]
2003-02-17  7:17   ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-17 15:09     ` Galen Boyer
2003-02-17 15:34       ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-17 15:58       ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>
2003-02-17 17:22         ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-17 19:38         ` John Wiegley
2003-02-18  2:24           ` Galen Boyer
2003-02-18  5:49             ` John Wiegley
2003-02-18  8:07           ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-17 18:25 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-02-17 19:48   ` Kai Großjohann

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