Re: bash --More-- prompt should show more

Martin D Kealey <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.shells.bash.bugs
Message-ID <CAN_U6MVksmPW=679gckKMtVTC2po-k5a23cwWBQGOCTBJyzxVA@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, 22 Feb 2026 at 16:30, Dan Jacobson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Here is bash's prompt in certain situations:
> google-android-build-tools-30.0.0-installer
> google-android-build-tools-30.0.1-installer
> google-android-build-tools-30.0.2-installer
> google-android-build-tools-30.0.3-installer
>
> Well I think it should be
> $ aptitude show google- --More--
> or something.
>

Can you confirm that this after you've hit TAB to complete a filename?

If so, then this list of filenames is not a “prompt” in the normal meaning
of that word: the “$” is the prompt.
Everything else is either ordinary output, or your input.

To change how completions display,  try
 https://github.com/kurahaupo/zcomp
or
 https://github.com/akinomyoga/ble.sh

-Martin
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