Restricted tab-completion is annoying
(=?utf-8?q?=60=60-=5F-=C2=B4=C2=B4?=) -- Fernando
Ubuntu at bugabundo.net
Sun Oct 21 22:55:29 UTC 2007
On Thursday 11 October 2007 16:51:23 Vincenzo Ciancia wrote:
> On 11/10/2007 Aaron C. de Bruyn wrote:
> > I don't think it's a good argument to say that people need to have user-friendly hand-holding at the command prompt. If I want to run 'evince somefile.asp' I should be able to. I don't care if the extension is .asp .pdf or .mystupidfile.
> >
>
> The shortest path to solve usability of this would be to complete
> "restricted" for the first tab, and "all files" for the second. When I
> have file extension corrected, I love unzip to complete only .zip files.
> But this will always be in the way in many occasions. Just pressing tab
> again should extend the completion level.
>
> Vincenzo
+2
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