Directory name completion

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Tue Jun 21 15:13:10 UTC 2011


On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 09:21 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote:
> On 06/21/2011 09:07 AM, suvayu ali wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 5:14 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan
> > <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> However under F14 I had everything set up so that typing 'cd foob<tab>'
> >> would complete the name. Now under F15 this no longer works, though I
> >> don't recall changing anything in my Shell environment.
> >>
> > 
> > AFAIR, I noticed something similar with bash completions not working
> > after upgrading to F15. Can't recall exactly what was the problem
> > though, my F15 system is offline for the last month.
> > 
> 
>   For what its worth this works fine for me. Is it possible there are
> multiple matches - in that case it prints the list of matches and waits
> for more information from user.
> 
>   What exactly is the circumstance that it fails?

The circumstance that I try it and it does nothing. There is no
ambiguity in the prefix and typing the <tab> has no effect whatever (no
list of alternatives, no beep, no tab character inserted).

This is happening on two separate F15 installations, both being upgrades
from F14.

poc



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