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bug #46402: TAB autocomplete does not recurse properly into directories

Submitter:  Ceral Paquet <octavebugs>
Submitted:  Sun 08 Nov 2015 08:24:37 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Interpreter Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  None
Status:  Duplicate Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Open/Closed:  * Closed
Release:  * 4.0.0 Operating System:  * GNU/Linux
Fixed Release:  None Planned Release:  None
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Sat 14 Nov 2015 10:38:41 AM UTC, comment #1: 

This is a result of autocomplete thinking that "/" is a division operator, and starting a new autocomplete.

See bug #34624.  There is some progress on fixing this in the latest development tree.

Lachlan Andrew <lachlan>
Sun 08 Nov 2015 08:24:37 PM UTC, original submission:  

When using TAB with the cd command to autocomplete directory names, it always uses the top directory.

>> pwd

ans = /home/octave-4.0.0

>> cd et [press TAB] ==> this results (correctly) in the autocompleted command cd etc/


But

>> cd etc/et [press TAB] ==> this results in cd etc/etc/


which is non-existent.

Similarly with edit:

>> edit etc/ [press TAB]

Display all 1775 possibilities? (y or n)

There are not 1775 files in the etc/ directory. It seems TAB autocomplete is looking in the entire path for possibilities.

Ceral Paquet <octavebugs>

 

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2015-12-22 mtmiller CategoryNone Interpreter
        StatusNone Duplicate
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed
        Dependencies- Depends on bugs #34624

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