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Re: auto-complete going on a diagonal -- "set print-completions-horizontally on => "equals diagonally"

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Chet Ramey wrote:
Am still on 4.2, but in the bashdir, I get:
> reset ... ^L
Erase is control-H (^H).
Kill is control-X (^X).
Ishtar:law> hhhhhhsfshsdfhl^C
Ishtar:law> bind
Ishtar:law> cd ../tools/bash/bash-4.3
Ishtar:tools/bash/bash-4.3> ls b<complete>
bash*            bashintl.h       bashversion*     buildversion.o
bashansi.h       bashjmp.h        bracecomp.c      builtins/
bashbug*         bashline.c       bracecomp.o      builtins.h
bashhist.c       bashline.h       braces.c         
bashhist.h       bashline.o       braces.o         
bashhist.o       bashtypes.h      buildsignames.o  
Ishtar:tools/bash/bash-4.3> bind 'set print-completions-horizontally on'
Ishtar:tools/bash/bash-4.3> ls b<complete>
bash*            bashansi.h       bashbug*         bashhist.c
bashhist.h       bashhist.o       bashintl.h       bashjmp.h
bashline.c       bashline.h       bashline.o       bashtypes.h
bashversion*     bracecomp.c      bracecomp.o      braces.c
braces.o         buildsignames.o  buildversion.o   builtins/
builtins.h
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Yeah, figures it would work right in the BASH dir... BUT...

Ishtar:tools/bash/bash-4.3> cd /suse132 

--- both of the below print diagonally because they have 
no line endings.

Ishtar:/suse132> ls e17<complete>
e17-0.17.6-2.1.10.x86_64.rpm                     e17-branding-openSUSE-0.1-10.1.2.x86_64.rpm      e17-branding-upstream-0.17.6-2.1.10.x86_64.rpm   e17-devel-0.17.6-2.1.10.x86_64.rpm               e17-doc-html-0.17.6-2.1.10.x86_64.rpm            e17-profiles-openSUSE-20131019-2.1.4.noarch.rpm  e17-theme-a-os-agust-v3-1-2.1.9.noarch.rpm       e17-theme-a-os-detour-1-2.1.9.noarch.rpm         e17-theme-a-os-green-1-2.1.9.noarch.rpm          e17-theme-a-os-miguel-v3-1-2.1.9.noarch.rpm      e17-theme-a-os-vision-v3-1-2.1.9.noarch.rpm      e17-theme-darkness-81195-2.1.9.noarch.rpm        e17-theme-default-0.17.6-2.1.10.x86_64.rpm       e17-theme-edjy-1-2.1.9.noarch.rpm                e17-theme-openSUSE-20131101.1-2.1.9.noarch.rpm
Ishtar:/suse132> bind 'set print-completions-horizontally' off
Ishtar:/suse132> ls e17<complete>
e17-0.17.6-2.1.10.x86_64.rpm                     e17-branding-openSUSE-0.1-10.1.2.x86_64.rpm      e17-branding-upstream-0.17.6-2.1.10.x86_64.rpm   e17-devel-0.17.6-2.1.10.x86_64.rpm               e17-doc-html-0.17.6-2.1.10.x86_64.rpm            e17-profiles-openSUSE-20131019-2.1.4.noarch.rpm  e17-theme-a-os-agust-v3-1-2.1.9.noarch.rpm       e17-theme-a-os-detour-1-2.1.9.noarch.rpm         e17-theme-a-os-green-1-2.1.9.noarch.rpm          e17-theme-a-os-miguel-v3-1-2.1.9.noarch.rpm      e17-theme-a-os-vision-v3-1-2.1.9.noarch.rpm      e17-theme-darkness-81195-2.1.9.noarch.rpm        e17-theme-default-0.17.6-2.1.10.x86_64.rpm       e17-theme-edjy-1-2.1.9.noarch.rpm                e17-theme-openSUSE-20131101.1-2.1.9.noarch.rpm

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