Default editor, solved

[Karl Larsen]

Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 16:39 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>
>   
>>     Sorry to be bearer of bad news but I did the gedit again to be sure 
>> and 3 Tabs do it just like the older vim.
>>     
>
> Just to be clear.  The <tab> filename completion is a feature of the
> shell.  The directory listing Vinson showed is a feature of vim.
>
> When you have typed:
>
> vim /etc/X11<tab>
>
> vim is not even running.  It is only when you type <ENTER> that the vim
> process executes.
>   
    Exactly. You have not done a thing with vim and it is in fact a bash 
function. to prove this I did this as a test:

karl at karl-hardy:~$ sudo zombie /etc/X11/
app-defaults/            X                        xserver/
cursors/                 xinit/                   Xsession
default-display-manager  xkb/                     Xsession.d/
fonts/                   xorg.conf                Xsession.options
rgb.txt                  Xresources/              Xwrapper.config
karl at karl-hardy:~$ sudo zombie /etc/X11/

As you see zombie has nothing to do with the list of sub directories. It 
is a bash function.

Karl



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