Re: tab filename insertion in Windows

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On 03/25/12 00:21, Tait wrote:
> I often develop files with \-continuations, e.g.
> plot '-' title "nzrgrdr" \
> 	'-' title "ghlallaghp" \
> 	'-' title "xyzpthrtk"
>
> N

I agree that tab completion is probably unhelpful in a context where a 
tab is a possible input character.

I generally find it more productive to think for myself that to have a 
program try to do it for me and keep breaking my concentration by 
second-guessing what I'm trying to do and jumping in to mess with what 
I'm typing.

Perhaps the feature should be limited to a context were it could 
actually be a filename but that would probably be complicated and 
unreliable. My approach would be to bin it.

BTW if you want to align multi-line plot commands like that I put all 
the plotted files including the first on the extended lines by 
assigning a throw-away variable just after plot. That makes all the 
lines have identical syntax and I can cut and paste to reorder or remove 
them at will.

plot s=0 \
, file1 with lines \
, file2 with lines \
, file3 using 1:2 \
#, file4 tit "test version" \


that would work around your tab problem. This a valid bug though.

regards.