[IPython-dev] cd a little hyper

Ville M. Vainio vivainio at gmail.com
Fri Jun 6 00:41:48 EDT 2008


On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 1:30 AM, John Hunter <jdh2358 at gmail.com> wrote:

> To due a readline bug on solaris, cd ~/somedTAB used to insert extra
> white space after completing directories, which was a major headache
> when navigating deeply nested directories since I had to backspace
> after every directory completion.   Using the latest ipython rom bzr,
> this appears to be fixed.  I don't know how it was fixed, but it is
> great.  (thanks).

Yes, I fixed that by introducing the pseudo-annoying behaviour you
mention (I noticed the same thing on linux + scratchbox). It's the
single_dir_expand call in ipy_completers.py (cd completer)

Perhaps we should "special case" the .svn / dot-something thing.

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