905342 - consider changing Tab-completion behavior of commands with common prefixes

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(DevTools Graveyard :: Graphic Commandline and Toolbar, defect)

Description

[Grant Gayed]

GCLI handles commands with common prefixes (for example, index.html's "cd", "connect" and "context" commands) by choosing the first one as the Tab-completion value.  While this approach works, it's not the behaviour that we (and probably most) are used to from using typical *ix terminals, and as a result we often end up Tab-completing unintended commands.  In *ix terminals, pressing Tab never results in taking you further away from the command you meant to type, but with GCLI's approach this can happen if there's another command with a shared prefix that's ordered first.

Comment 1

[Joe Walker [:jwalker]]

Triage. Filter on Lobster Thermidor.
Nice idea, but it's not been worked on in 4 years, and I don't see that the priority of GCLI has increased in that time, so I don't think we need to keep it on file.