tab expansion should only take one directory level at the time

Bug #299821 reported by Peter Bienstman
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IPython
Confirmed
Low
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Bug Description

In my relentless quest for the ultimate tab expansion behaviour, here's another suggestion:

>mkdir AAA
>touch AAA/b

rm -r AA<tab> expands to

>rm -r AAA/b

I think it would be better if that would only get expanded to AAA/, and only to AAA/b after hitting tab a second time. Similarly for other file system commands.

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Brian Granger (ellisonbg) wrote :

Yes, I think that tab completion should work in this way. When you tab complete on a directory, you should get as the output AAA/
If you then continue, you should get the contents of the directory.

Changed in ipython:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Confirmed
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