Question about path name expansion

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2 total messages Started by Bjoern Wennberg Fri, 20 Nov 1992 10:56

#954

Author: Bjoern Wennberg
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 10:56

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When I hit <TAB> as the first character typed, bash 'almost' hangs forever
trying to figure out which command I was trying to invoke. 

Is there a way to make bash recognise that a tab was the first character typed
and just do nothing ?

bjornw>

Bjoern.Wennberg@colargol.edb.tih.no

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Re: Question about path name expansion

#957

Author: John Navarra
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 06:28

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In article <1992Nov20.105605.25838@ugle.unit.no> bjornw@colargol.ai.mit.EDU (Bjoern Wennberg) writes:
>When I hit <TAB> as the first character typed, bash 'almost' hangs forever
>trying to figure out which command I was trying to invoke. 
>
>Is there a way to make bash recognise that a tab was the first character typed
>and just do nothing ?
>
Hear Hear! I agree wholeheartedly!

Actually, I like the way zsh does this. You hit TAB, you get TAB. It knows
when you want to do TAB completion (because it has a default set of
commands that is does certain completions on; and, you can include your
own set of commands and patterns to do hostname completion for example)

TAB has always worked nicely for me in zsh and I don't have to worry about
binding keys to do other types of completion.

However, just as an observation, if I inadvertently hit TAB at the bol in 
bash, I can ^C and it will no longer hang.

-tms

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