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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