Re: Visual completion ellipsis

2005-12-10 Thread Chet Ramey
Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote: > Here's a proposed patch for Bash (or readline) which implements a > usability feature. This feature reduces the amount of text output > when filename completion shows a list of files after pressing TAB > twice (or once if you configure it so), showing as first let

Re: Visual completion ellipsis

2005-12-10 Thread William Park
On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 11:36:53PM +0100, Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote: > Nearly a month later, despite a lack of instructions, I manage to > subscribe to this mailing thanks to the answers of Bob Proulx and > Chet Ramey. Lurking here, I see no trace of active development, > no information about

Visual completion ellipsis

2005-12-10 Thread Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz
Here's a proposed patch for Bash (or readline) which implements a usability feature. This feature reduces the amount of text output when filename completion shows a list of files after pressing TAB twice (or once if you configure it so), showing as first letter what you have to type to disambiguat