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Re: howto: no space after completion (this used to work in 3.0.5!!!!)



On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 11:52:49AM -0400, Timothy J Luoma wrote:
> Replying to message of Thu, 6 May 1999 17:17:57 +0200 (MET DST)
> 	from Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 	regarding ``Re: howto: no space after completion''
> 	
> > Should there be an option for that? (Meaning: why do you want it?)
> 
> OH YES!  (I just emailed Sven off-list to told him my brain was shorting out  
> and I couldn't remember why I had wanted this!)
> 
> I actually misspoke.  That's not what I want exactly.
> 
> Here's a real-life situation where this comes into place (and what I am used  
> to, using 3.0.5)
> 
> 
> I have a folder /LocalApps
> 
> it has an alias $lapps
> 
> when I do
> 
> # cd $la[tab]

try cd ~la[tab]

I do it all the time for long directories that I access all the time and
it makes the prompt path shorter too:

~ echo $x
/usr/X11R6
~ cd ~x/[tab]
bin/      include/  info/     levels/   lib/      man/      share/
sounds/
~ cd ~x/bin
~x/bin 
^^^^^^
   ^prompt
> 
> I get
> 
> # cd $lapps [cursor here]
> 
> but I actually want
> 
> # cd $lapps/[cursor here]
> 
> so I can use tab-completion to get the listing of all the files inside $lapps
> 
> 
> (	again that WORKS in 3.0.5	)
> 
> 
> So actually I don't want to remove the space, I want the 3.0.5 behavior to  
> be restored.
> 
> Here are my setopts in case it matters
> 
> AUTO_PARAM_SLASH AUTO_RESUME ALWAYS_TO_END APPEND_HISTORY AUTO_CD AUTO_LIST  
> AUTO_NAME_DIRS AUTO_PARAM_KEYS AUTO_PUSHD AUTO_REMOVE_SLASH BG_NICE BRACE_CCL  
> CDABLE_VARS COMPLETE_IN_WORD CORRECT CSH_JUNKIE_HISTORY EXTENDED_GLOB  
> HASH_CMDS HASH_DIRS HASH_LIST_ALL HIST_IGNORE_DUPS HIST_IGNORE_SPACE  
> HIST_NO_STORE HIST_VERIFY IGNORE_EOF ALWAYS_LAST_PROMPT LIST_AMBIGUOUS  
> LIST_TYPES LONG_LIST_JOBS MAGIC_EQUAL_SUBST MARK_DIRS MENU_COMPLETE  
> NO_BAD_PATTERN NO_BEEP NO_CLOBBER NO_FLOW_CONTROL NO_HUP NO_LIST_BEEP NOTIFY  
> NUMERIC_GLOB_SORT PRINT_EXIT_VALUE PROMPT_SUBST PUSHD_IGNORE_DUPS  
> PUSHD_SILENT PUSHD_TO_HOME RC_EXPAND_PARAM RC_QUOTES
> 



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