Re: strange tab completion behaviour on mailboxes
* On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 Chris Bannister (mockingbird@xxxxxxxxxx) muttered:
> I press 's' on a message and get e.g.
> Save to mailbox ('?' for list): =OUT-Personal
> Now If I backspace:
> Save to mailbox: =
> then press c tab tab, I get:
>
> 1 drwxr-xr-x 2 chrisb chrisb 12288 Nov 24 14:03 cache/
> 2 drwx------ 5 chrisb chrisb 4096 Nov 05 00:41 cad/
> 3 drwx------ 5 chrisb chrisb 4096 Jan 24 07:40 camera/
>
> See there is no canine/ maildir so I press y
> Come back to the prompt:
> Save to mailbox: =ca
> Now if I type n, I get:
> Save to mailbox: n
> Not what I would expect.
> I would expect: Save to mailbox: =can
Feature - when you return to the prompt and type something the current
prompt gets overwritten. You just ran into the one case where it's
inconvenient.
HTH,
Michael
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