Re: PATCH: Re: expand style `suffix' option

[Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>]

Sven Wischnowsky wrote:
> > The only glitch I've come across is that you only get the top level
> > directory in the list even you are completing to multiple levels,
> > e.g. ~/b/b<TAB> shows up a whole load of `bin/'s in the listing.  One can,
> > of course, argue that this is perfectly reasonable:  menu completion will
> > show the full set.
> 
> That bug was in a different place than I first suspected. With
> unsorted groups (and neither -1 nor -2) duplicate matches were removed 
> but it didn't make sure to hide matches showing the same string in the 
> list. I'm pretty sure this wasn't done on purpose.

I'm still getting the behaviour, but I don't believe it's really a bug:
with menu completion and menu selection, you need different entries in the
displayed menu to cycle through.

> >  One could wish for an extra directory level to be shown
> > to resolve conflicts, but then one could wish for free chocolate.
> 
> No change here, one can always set the list-sufffixes style to get
> that behaviour (although it would probably be sensible to do that
> automatically with menu-completion).

Yes, this does what I want.

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Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>                  Software Engineer
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Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 392070


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