Alias completion question

Jason electron at emypeople.net
Thu Mar 14 01:56:48 UTC 2019


On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 02:06:59PM +1100, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> On 11.03.19 20:32, Jason wrote:
> > To prevent this, I usually press Tab one extra time to see how many 
> > matches pop up; just wondering if that's what everyone else does too or 
> > if there's something that would negate the need for the extra Tab press.
> 
> That's how mailbox name completion works too. It's what I expect and use.
> 
> In comparison, bash takes two additional tabs and a 'y' to bring up a
> long list after one tab has partially completed "mail/cnc":
> 
> $ ls mail/cnc_linux_
> Display all 456 possibilities? (y or n)
> 
> Erik

Okay, thanks. It's no big deal, just thought I'd ask. I suppose if I'd 
set up all aliases consistently with firstname_lastname (no first name 
only entries) that would largely take care of it.

-- 
Jason



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