On Sat, 9 Sep 1995, Paul Cole wrote: > Interesting idea, autocompletion. However, wouldn't it be much easier to > deal with autocompletion by assuming that anywhere a noun could go, if it > doesn't match after they hit return <i.e. during normal command > processing> to try to complete it, and if not unique, send some message > back to the user stateing as much, maybe even a list of the possible > completions available given the partial input. That way you don't have > to fool around with character at a time input. actually, i think the guy was using [tab] as it's used in, for instance, zsh if yer familiar with it. you hit tab in the middle of a file-name and you can set it to show you a menu of auto-completion-choices and cycle through them... anyway, i think he was using as a kinda substitute or add-on to abbreviations. what yer talkin about _is_ abbreviations, and they _are_ simple :) this guy's idea entailed never executing the command at all, until auto-completion (or really just completion) had dealt with it if necessary (if they hit tab). -dert
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