Unwanted blank after command line <tab> expansion

Karl Auer kauer at biplane.com.au
Sun Sep 4 12:25:15 UTC 2022


On Sun, 2022-09-04 at 13:04 +0200, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
> that's what I did, but you didn't in your reply in August, right?

I said

   man bash, look for "nospace" ?

Seems pretty clear to me. That was on 31 August (UTC). I don't know why
Mark felt the need to post the same question again; I guess the man
page was not as helpful to him as I thought it would be.

The point stands: Don't quote manual pages unless it is to quote a
specific solution, and even then it's usually better to tell the user
what to look for because they may have different man pages to you.

> I still don't know how to use it

Someone who uses custom completions should be able to work out from the
man page (and definitely from my explanation) how to turn off that
pesky space. And do other neat things with completions as well.

Regards, K.

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