> >> On Feb 9, 2009, at 11:34 PM, Simon King wrote:
> >>> Yes!
> >>> I could imagine:
> >>> 1. FOO.X<TAB> searches for attributes that start with X (current
> >>> behaviour)
> >>> 2. FOO.X<Shift-TAB> searches for attributes that *contain* X (new
> >>> feature)
+1 as well
And a big +1 in general for this discussion. In MuPAD-Combinat we had
gone for the "eigenvectors_right" convention precisely for this
question of tab completion. When moving to sage, we discovered the
bla.*eigenvectors*? trick, and decided accordingly to drop the ugly.
Note: to me the most natural thing to do would be (and this would be
consistent with "?"):
FOO.X<TAB>: current behavior: searches for attributes that start with X
FOO.*X<TAB>: extended behavior: searches for attributes that contain X
One advantage is that this should require no change in the sage
interfaces. In particular, this does not require playing with special
inputs like Shift-TAB, which can be messy in terminals.
Cheers,
Nicolas
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Nicolas M. Thiéry "Isil" <nthi...@users.sf.net>
http://Nicolas.Thiery.name/
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