On Monday 03 of September 2012 09:31:12 Rudolf Sykora wrote: > I too believe that unless the mechanism of autocomplete is well-enough > resolved, rc won't work for many people. I understand the reasons why > readline is not in the shell, but on the other hand I often get angry > when I can't autocomplete. > > Sometimes I just do not remember the exact name of a command, > sometimes I can't use variables in a path on the command line since I > do not exactly remember what should come next (like sam > $directory^/something; ctrl-f doesn't help), etc. Also the problem of > not being able to repeat last few commands so simply as can be done > elsewhere is disappointing (if there is a lot of error output from the > previous command, saying that one must look back, find the command, > change it, ...). Rsc's " and "" scripts help much, but still are not > so straightforward as an up-arrow. (Again, I understand that for the > latter-like behaviour one needs cursor addressing.)
my use case: in acme, upon hitting ^F, before breaking up completion subject into directory/file part and passing it to complete(), do filter the completion subject through Rc to expand both variable names and wildcards. somewhere around /usr/local/plan9/src/cmd/acme/text.c:/^textcomplete -- dexen deVries [[[↓][→]]] I'm sorry that this was such a long letter, but I didn't have time to write you a short one. -- Blaise Pascal
