From: Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@gmail.com>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: completion is over thinking things.
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2019 19:13:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN=4vMrRO3K6S+zE-JNE4JDQrm9=Yf92mixTpmxNAZ-uGp8QnA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <306325bb-395d-a16b-a771-0786c23cb46e@eastlink.ca>
On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 7:06 PM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:
>
> $ ls inst.deb
> inst.deb
>
> $ apt-get install inst. [TAB]
> Completing package
> libapt-inst2.0
> libmono-system-configuration-install4.0-cil
> libmono-system-runtime-durableinstancing4.0-cil
>
> How can I get completion to stop looking and finding files God knows
> where and just expand filenames in the current directory?
This doesn't answer your question but `apt-get install inst.deb` won't
install ./inst.deb. Instead, it'll install all packages that partially
match regex `inst.deb`. You might be looking for `dpkg -i inst.deb`,
which conveniently also completes `inst.[TAB]` as you would expect.
Roman.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-28 17:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-28 17:05 Ray Andrews
2019-09-28 17:13 ` Roman Perepelitsa [this message]
2019-09-28 17:36 ` Ray Andrews
2019-09-29 4:47 ` dana
2019-09-29 15:29 ` Ray Andrews
2019-09-29 16:44 ` Bart Schaefer
2019-09-29 18:41 ` Ray Andrews
2019-09-29 19:06 ` Bart Schaefer
2019-09-29 19:35 ` Ray Andrews
2019-09-29 13:09 ` Mikael Magnusson
2019-09-29 15:11 ` Ray Andrews
2019-09-29 15:19 ` Pier Paolo Grassi
2019-09-28 17:14 ` gmail
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