[clue-tech] failure to complete

[David L. Willson]

More info:

Autocomplete works as expected if arg0 is 'cat', rather than 'oocalc'.  I am using
Ubuntu 7.10.  I have also noticed that I can auto-complete package-names with 'sudo
apt-get install'.  I wonder what does this...

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:52:09 -0700, David L. Willson wrote
> Hmm...  I can't get auto-complete to work, sometimes, on some things.  For example:
> 
> dlwillson at aurora:~/Desktop$ ls -l
> total 30644
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dlwillson dlwillson 13914332 2008-02-28 13:26 all-log
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dlwillson dlwillson 17371349 2008-02-28 13:25 all-xml
> drwxr-xr-x 2 dlwillson dlwillson     4096 2008-02-28 14:00 AuditResults
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 dlwillson dlwillson        5 2008-02-27 13:59 data -> /data
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dlw<...>42 2008-02-28 14:09 inventory-software-title-results
> dlwillson at aurora:~/Desktop$ oocalc all
> 
> Now, I'm tabbing like a monkey, and getting no list, so I edit 'all' to 
> 'invent' and tab like mad again, but still no completion.  I have noticed this 
> 'failure to complete' with directories under /media, but I thought it was some 
> special property of those folders, or an explicit suppression.  There's no 
> such thing going on with these files, they're brand new...
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> David L. Willson
> Trainer/Engineer/Consultant
> MCT, MCSE, Linux+
> (720) 333-LANS
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David L. Willson
Trainer/Engineer/Consultant
MCT, MCSE, Linux+
(720) 333-LANS