Re: dabbrev-expand completions are sorted

[Roee Bar]

There is no ambiguous in dabbrev-expand - it is well defined what the 
completion should be: each key press cycles through the matches from most 
recent to oldest match. This is different than TAB completion, where it is 
possible to have several matches so it makes sense to display them. That is 
also the dabbrev-expand behaviour in tcsh when ‘autolist’ (i.e. 
'show-all-if-ambiguous’ ) is set.

Also, have you succeeded reproducing the original dabbrev-expand bug with 
completion-ignore-case set?


> On Mar 16, 2017, at 08:56, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
> 
> On 3/15/17 4:25 PM, Roee Bar wrote:
>> Also, not as serious as the bug below, if you have 'set 
>> show-all-if-ambiguous on’ on your .inputrc, it shows all matching on 
>> dabbrev-expand as well (I don’t think it should).
> 
> I think it should.  If you have that variable enabled, you want it to act
> consistently for all completions.
> 
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> Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/