Re: Directory name completion

2011-06-22 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 08:23 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 16:31 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 15:27 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 10:43 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 09:21 -0400, Genes Ma

Re: Directory name completion

2011-06-22 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 16:31 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> >> AFAIK $PATH has nothing to do with it. The appropriate variable is >> $CDPATH and yes, the directory is in it. > > That is an interesting theory but I have no $CDPATH and the

Re: Directory name completion

2011-06-22 Thread Steven Stern
On 06/21/2011 07:14 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > There's a specific directory on my system, let's call > it /some/long/path/foobar, that I visit a lot, so it's a bore to have to > type the full pathname so often. The parent directory (/some/long/path) > is a component in CDPATH so I can just ty

Re: Directory name completion

2011-06-22 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 16:31 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 15:27 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 10:43 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 09:21 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: > > > > On 06/21/2011 09:07 AM, suvayu ali wrote:

Re: Directory name completion

2011-06-21 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 12:42 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 06/21/2011 11:13 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > The circumstance that I try it and it does nothing. There is no > > ambiguity in the prefix and typing the has no effect whatever (no > > list of alternatives, no beep, no tab char

Re: Directory name completion

2011-06-21 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 15:27 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 10:43 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 09:21 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: > > > On 06/21/2011 09:07 AM, suvayu ali wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 5:14 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan > > > >

Re: Directory name completion

2011-06-21 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 10:43 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 09:21 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: > > On 06/21/2011 09:07 AM, suvayu ali wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 5:14 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan > > > wrote: > > >> However under F14 I had everything set up so that t

Re: Directory name completion

2011-06-21 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/21/2011 11:13 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > The circumstance that I try it and it does nothing. There is no > ambiguity in the prefix and typing the has no effect whatever (no > list of alternatives, no beep, no tab character inserted). > > This is happening on two separate F15 installa

Re: Directory name completion

2011-06-21 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 09:12 -0700, JD wrote: > On 06/21/2011 08:52 AM, g wrote: > > On 06/21/2011 12:14 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > >> There's a specific directory on my system, let's call > >> it /some/long/path/foobar, that I visit a lot, so it's a bore to have to > >> type the full pathname

Re: Directory name completion

2011-06-21 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 15:52 +, g wrote: > On 06/21/2011 12:14 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > There's a specific directory on my system, let's call > > it /some/long/path/foobar, that I visit a lot, so it's a bore to have to > > type the full pathname so often. The parent directory (/some/lo

Re: Directory name completion

2011-06-21 Thread JD
On 06/21/2011 08:52 AM, g wrote: > On 06/21/2011 12:14 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> There's a specific directory on my system, let's call >> it /some/long/path/foobar, that I visit a lot, so it's a bore to have to >> type the full pathname so often. The parent directory (/some/long/path) >> is

Re: Directory name completion

2011-06-21 Thread g
On 06/21/2011 12:14 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > There's a specific directory on my system, let's call > it /some/long/path/foobar, that I visit a lot, so it's a bore to have to > type the full pathname so often. The parent directory (/some/long/path) > is a component in CDPATH so I can just ty

Re: Directory name completion

2011-06-21 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 09:21 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 06/21/2011 09:07 AM, suvayu ali wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 5:14 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan > > wrote: > >> However under F14 I had everything set up so that typing 'cd foob' > >> would complete the name. Now under F15 this no long

Re: Directory name completion

2011-06-21 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/21/2011 09:07 AM, suvayu ali wrote: > On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 5:14 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: >> However under F14 I had everything set up so that typing 'cd foob' >> would complete the name. Now under F15 this no longer works, though I >> don't recall changing anything in my Shell env

Re: Directory name completion

2011-06-21 Thread suvayu ali
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 5:14 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > However under F14 I had everything set up so that typing 'cd foob' > would complete the name. Now under F15 this no longer works, though I > don't recall changing anything in my Shell environment. > AFAIR, I noticed something similar w

Directory name completion

2011-06-21 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
There's a specific directory on my system, let's call it /some/long/path/foobar, that I visit a lot, so it's a bore to have to type the full pathname so often. The parent directory (/some/long/path) is a component in CDPATH so I can just type 'cd foobar' and all is good. However under F14 I had ev