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

Chet Ramey <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.shells.bash.bugs
Organization ITS, Case Western Reserve University
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2/22/26 1:30 AM, Dan Jacobson 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.
> 
> That way the original command we have half typed would be revealed.

The original command? The one you just typed and completed? The one
you can see if you scroll your terminal window up a little bit?


> It looks like we might have completed as far as
> google-android-build-tools-
> 
> But in fact we have only got as far as
> google-

What's the difference? Readline will complete to the longest unique prefix
anyway.


> and the old-fashioned --More-- prompt isn't revealing more.

Should it?

-- 
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
		 ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    [email protected]    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
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