From: John Wiegley <johnw@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: eshell: annoying filename completion
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 15:28:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87smu2ahry.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1c58a7c3.0303041407.c629104@posting.google.com
brakjoller@hotmail.com (Barman Brakjoller) writes:
> That works ok, eshell completes the filename. But what if I want to
> rename that file to long_file_name.jpeg? This does not work as I
> want:
>
> ~/tmp/esh $ mv long_<pressing TAB here completes the filename> lo<TAB
> again, nothing happens, eshell just beeps at me>
>
> I guess eshell is trying to be smart here, but in this case it is too
> smart for my taste... :)
Use C-c C-y to re-insert the final argument of the current line. In
general, Eshell tries not to complete an argument twice, since it is
so rarely what you want to do.
John
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-04 22:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-04 22:07 eshell: annoying filename completion Barman Brakjoller
2003-03-04 22:27 ` Lucas
2003-03-04 22:28 ` John Wiegley [this message]
2003-03-05 14:48 ` Barman Brakjoller
2003-03-05 3:29 ` Unknown
2003-03-05 4:03 ` John Wiegley
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