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Subject: Re: Ada.Command_Line and wildcards
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On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 21:32 +0000, Bj=C3=B6rn Persson wrote:
> Martin Krischik wrote:
>=20
> > Sadly VMS never really used CLD to it's full potential. Just imagine CL=
D
> > combined with bash'es advanced comandline completion! Not only commands
> > and files could be completed - options as well.
>=20
> I recently discovered that Bash can do that if you define completion
> specifications. I had thought that only the Z shell had that feature. Loo=
k
> for "Programmable Completion" in the Bash manual.

Can be unnerving if you come across completion AI uninitiated ;-)
For example, recent Bash setups recognise "darcs" as a known command
name. Then bash tries to discover what file name I might have wanted=20
to type and somehow starts scanning the repository!

Please, turn that off! :-) :-)