Autocompletion with text before /and/ after cursor

[valkyr]

Say the cursor is here :

shu|down

auto-complete should be able to handle that, matching "shutdown", and inserting the "t".

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report, it has been some time without any response or feedback in this bug report and we are wondering if this is still an issue for you with the latest release of Ubuntu the Natty Narwhal, May you please test with that version and comment back if you're still having or not the issue? Please have a look at http://www.ubuntu.com/download to know how to install that version. Thanks in advance and sorry for the late response.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

[David Caro (dcaro)]

Hi, what valkyr is saying (or at least what I am understanding) is a problen with the autocomplete in the bash program, not sure if it should be here.

The problem is:
when you are typing in a terminal, if you type 'tab' the terminal will try to autocomplete the comand you are typing, but if you typed for example:
$ shudown
and move back the cursor whete the 't' should be and hit 'tab', the autocompleted command will end up like this:
$ shutdowndown
if it find asingle match or will show you allt he options that start with shut, like this:
cascara@zeus:~$ shudown
shuf shutdown

What is aslinf is for the autocomplete functions to take into account the string after the cursor to do the search, and match only the commands that start with shu and end with down. And also avoid writing the wholw command again and just add the missing chars.

Personally is something that will also be usefool to me.

David

[David Caro (dcaro)]

Sorry about the typos... but I can't edit the post.
Thanks