Re: eshell: Support old-style completion and cycling completion?

[Galen Boyer <galenboyer@hotpop.com>]

On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, johnw@gnu.org wrote:

> Pcomplete (which is what Eshell uses) will not cycle if the number of
> completions exceeds `eshell-cmpl-cycle-cutoff-length'.
> 
> These fancy TAB behaviors sound very interesting.  I'm eager to hear
> what you all decide upon.

> As for me, I like TAB to cycle right away if the number of
> completions is very small, and to pop up the Completions buffer if it
> is large.

I think I like this the best.

If the completions buffer is envoked, does the cycling behavior kick in
after the completions have decremented past
eshell-cmpl-cycle-cutoff-length'?  That could make the final choice
always based on cycling (or full completion), which might be useful.

-- 
Galen deForest Boyer
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