Re: [ANN] luaprompt 0.6

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 11:52 AM, Ross Berteig <Ross@cheshireeng.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 6/15/2015 10:52 AM, Coda Highland wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Brigham Toskin
>> <brighamtoskin@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>    - Could you do rotating tab completion instead of only to the prefix?
>>>> ....
>>>
>>>
>>> Have you ever come across a program that has this behavior? I think I
>>> would
>>> find it confusing, since in my experience, ambiguous completions are
>>> usually
>>> either just given the first match it finds, or it prints a list of
>>> partial
>>> matches, prompting you to type a longer substring to specify which one
>>> you
>>> meant.
>>
>>
>> I don't LIKE this behavior, but I HAVE encountered it before. It's
>> more common in editors rather than shells -- this is the behavior of
>> the autocomplete dropdown in many IDEs, as well as the behavior of
>> vim's command line.
>
>
> It is also the file name completion behavior in Windows at the CMD.EXE
> prompt. I like it better than just going 'ding' because the completion is
> ambiguous without any other hints about what the choices are...
>

In bash, at least, "ding" just means "hit tab again and I'll tell you
what completions I know for this prefix."

/s/ Adam