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From: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
To: Christopher Howard <christopher.howard@qlfiles.net>
Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Switch eshell to simple bash-style completion?
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 16:57:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2fubexp51.fsf@newartisans.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1505607344.30946.2.camel@qlfiles.net> (Christopher Howard's message of "Sat, 16 Sep 2017 16:15:44 -0800")

>>>>> "CH" == Christopher Howard <christopher.howard@qlfiles.net> writes:

CH> Hi, I've been enjoying using eshell more and more, but I can't get used to
CH> the default completion method where it picks the most recently modified
CH> and then cycles through. Can I make it act like bash and just complete up
CH> to the last unambiguous letter? I see some relevant looking variables, but
CH> am not sure what to do with them. I am running Emacs 24.5.1.

You could try setting eshell-cmpl-cycle-cutoff-length to a low value, like 1.

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John Wiegley                  GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-09-22 23:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-17  0:15 Switch eshell to simple bash-style completion? Christopher Howard
2017-09-17  0:55 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-22 23:57 ` John Wiegley [this message]

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