From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: perry at piermont.com (Perry E. Metzger) Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2018 20:13:09 -0400 Subject: [COFF] Other OSes? In-Reply-To: <20180709000046.GD11366@eureka.lemis.com> References: <20180705055650.GA2170@minnie.tuhs.org> <20180708165006.21a7429e@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <20180709000046.GD11366@eureka.lemis.com> Message-ID: <20180708201309.2c4f85f6@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> On Mon, 9 Jul 2018 10:00:46 +1000 Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Sunday, 8 July 2018 at 16:27:54 -0700, Bakul Shah wrote: > > I believe autocompletion has been available for 20+ years. > > Yes, I started using bash in 1990, and it had autocompletion then. > A colleague was using it even earlier, and pointed out to me > autocompletion and Emacs-style editing as one of the great > advantages. Yes, I know. But it only autocompletes file names, not program flags and arguments etc., unless you write special bash scripts for every single program examining what its arguments are. The point of what I wrote is that there is now a good idea about how programs can convey their arguments to the shell, thus allowing a general fix to the issue. -- Perry E. Metzger perry at piermont.com