svn commit: r209221 - head/bin/sh

Colin Percival cperciva at freebsd.org
Tue Jun 15 22:10:13 UTC 2010


Jilles Tjoelker wrote:
>   Unlike NetBSD, there is no 'set +o tabcomplete' option to disable
>   completion. I do not see any reason for such a special treatment, as
>   completion is rather useful and it is possible to do
>     bind ^I ed-insert
>   to disable completion and insert a tab character instead.

For what it's worth, I find that having tab completion disabled is very useful
when I paste pieces of shell script into consoles.  If other people also do
this, it might be an argument in favour of providing a more user-friendly way
to disable tab completion.

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Colin Percival
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