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It would be very desirable if bash had the ability to customize how
filename completion works with <tab> keys. (Tcsh allows very flexible
customization.)

In situations where bash can not complete to a unique name, it just
beeps and sits there. Right away I hit a second <tab> and get the list
of possible completions. I would like being able to have Bash do what
it does after this second tab as soon as the first tab is hit. For years
I have hacked readline.c on my own to achieve this, but I don't feel my
hack is very general or elegant. Will bash have this feature in future?

Aslo, tcsh has context sensitive completion, so that if one does
printenv DIS<tab> it completes from the list of env. variables. Neat.
Can bash have this too?

Gautam H. Thaker (gthaker@atl.ge.com) 609-866-6412 (fax x6397. Dialcom 8-777)
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In readline.c:
	  /* If there are more matches, ring the bell to indicate.
	     If this was the only match, and we are hacking files,
	     check the file to see if it was a directory.  If so,
	     add a '/' to the name.  If not, and we are at the end
	     of the line, then add a space. */
	  if (matches[1])
	    {
/*	      ding (); get rid of noise.  /* There are other matches remaining. */
              rl_possible_completions();  /*GHT  8 May 90 v1.05, 28 May 91 v1.08 */
	    }
	  else
	    {
	      char temp_string[2];