6 things that I miss in bash

Jun 09, 2009, 22:31 (0 Talkback[s])

[ Thanks to Alexander Sandler for this link. ]

"2 - Completion of directory and file names based on their usage
I think that 90% of cd’s that I do are all destined to the same directory. Why on earth I see the list of possible destination for cd in alphabetical order every time I press TAB?

"3 - Completion of make targets
I know this has already been implemented. But I am wondering why it isn’t part of bash_completion package on Ubuntu. OpenSuSE is no better - it does completion only to some yast stuff."

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