On 4/5/13 5:19 PM, reha...@gmail.com wrote:
> I would like the choice between the completion mechanism I used in my first
> post (manually cycling through completion options), and the completion
> mechanism in this post (typing extra characters onto the common prefix and
> then completing again).
>
> In any case, the behaviour I described in my first post still seems like a
> bug. I don't see why, under any circumstances, it make sense for bash to
> display the same completion list twice.
OK, I see. Regular tab completion and menu completion don't share state.
Menu completion uses some of the completion internals, but is separate from
TAB completion. I don't see this changing any time soon.
Chet
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