Re: OT: Shell completion (was RE: [E-devel] my bad idea)

[Cristalle A. S. <ed...@az...>]

Val...@vt... writes:
 > > [zsh's] globbing features are also quite versatile (although
 > > it does not allow 'ftp foo*' to expand to host names. ;)
 > 
 > The reason it can't is because the 'foo*' is still read and globbed
 > by zsh, rather than by the ftp command itself.

   I get correct tab-completion in zsh for ftp (suggests hosts from
   /etc/hosts, possibly from .netrc if I had one), rpm (suggests
   switches, then if switches are present, packages, completes "rpm
   -qi Eter"+Tab very much the way we'd expect it to), et al.  So the
   default setup won't complete "rpm -qi Eter*" (glob) -- can't say I
   even noticed before.  Wouldn't be suprised if it could be tuned
   somewhere.

   regards,
   Azundris