GNU nano - Bugs: bug #58627, [Wish] show possible completions...
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bug #58627: [Wish] show possible completions after a single <Tab> instead of after two
Submitter: | Benno Schulenberg <bens> | ||
Submitted: | Fri 19 Jun 2020 02:50:12 PM UTC | ||
Severity: | 1 - Wish | Status: | Fixed |
Assigned to: | bens | Open/Closed: | Closed |
Tue 23 Jun 2020 06:45:55 AM UTC, comment #2: |
Benno Schulenberg <bens> |
Sat 20 Jun 2020 03:29:41 PM UTC, comment #1: The requirement for a double <Tab> is especially annoying when after the first listing of possibilities, the user types some extra character(s) and then types <Tab> again. Instead of reducing the list to the ones that match now, nano shows the content of the edit window again, which is completely useless and even disorienting. Only upon the second <Tab> does the reduced list appear.
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Benno Schulenberg <bens> |
Fri 19 Jun 2020 02:50:12 PM UTC, original submission:
When at a filename prompt the user types (for example in nano's source directory): RE <Tab>, nano completes this to README. Good. But when the user's terminal does not give audio feedback (as seems to be the default on several distros nowadays), the user does not know whether this is the sole possible completion (silence) or there are multiple files whose names start with README (beep). The user has to type a second <Tab> to be sure -- when there are multiple files, they will be listed in the edit window.
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Benno Schulenberg <bens> |
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Date | Changed by | Updated Field | Previous Value | => | Replaced by |
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2020-07-30 | bens | Open/Closed | Open | Closed | |
2020-06-23 | bens | Status | In Progress | Fixed | |
2020-06-20 | bens | Attached File | - | Added 0001-files-list-possible-completions-after-just-one-Tab-i.patch, #49329 | |
Status | None | In Progress | |||
2020-06-20 | bens | Assigned to | None | bens |
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Corresponding source code
Fixed in git, commit ff11ab6b.
Also, nano now beeps only when there are zero possible completions. (That needs to be revised, because now nano is quiet when there was just one possible completion and the <Tab> made it, and now more <Tab>s are given. Those subsequent <Tab>s should beep, to indicate that no further completion is possible/available.)