On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 7:09 AM, Girish Venkatachalam
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Roshan Mathews <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Check out:
>> /etc/bash_completion
>> /etc/bash_completion.d/mercurial
>
> I seem to be missing something. What is the connection?
>
> I was talking about the set command in [1] and you are talking about
> auto completion.
>
Yes, but one of your examples for set used the file bash_completion.
> I did talk about how to add editline in one of the language classes.
>
> That adds auto completion feature to your program shell.
>
That adds the history feature, right? So that you can use your arrow
keys and C-r to search for previous commands.
> By the way I find that nowadays the application specific files alone
> show up in auto completion. This is a very nice improvement.
>
Exactly. That's what I was talking about. Maybe I should have been
clearer about how I wrote it. Application specific file completion is
done by those two files I mentioned (if you have sourced them into
your .bashrc)
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