[clue-tech] failure to complete

[David L. Anselmi]

Greg Knaddison - GVS wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 5:07 PM, David L. Willson <DLWillson at thegeek.nu> wrote:
>> 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...
[...]
> I just created an ods file and oocalc would do aucomplete on it.  I
> guess it doesn't want to autocomplete on your file where it is unsure
> what kind of data is inside.

zsh has had context sensitive autocomplete for a while.  I've heard that 
bash is moving that direction.  Perhaps it's on in your system.  Did you 
look at bash(1), perhaps under "Programmable Completion"?

Dave