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Re: why is dash confused with underscore in autocompletion?

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Chet Ramey wrote:
> Linda: it's a readline option. It's off by default. You turned it on
> somewhere in your environment. If you don't like the behavior, find out
> where you enabled it and turn it off again.
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I find the man page wrong or misleading w/r/t the map-case option:

    If  set  to  On, and completion-ignore-case is enabled, readline
    treats hyphens (-) and underscores (_) as equivalent  when  per-
    forming case-insensitive filename matching and completion.

readline does NOT treat hyphen and underscore as equivalent when
performing  case-insensitive filename matching and completion.
I know, now, that the 'if' condition is meant to apply to the 2nd phrase
above, but it has a 'syntax error'.  I'm pretty sure that the 2nd
phrase needs a subordinating 'then' before readline. 
Otherwise the relation of the first 2 clauses (If..., and...,) is
unclear.  I'm not sure where readline does 'matching' that isn't
part of completion (not saying it doesn't exist, just can't think
of any examples off hand).

I feel that paragraph would be more clear if its effects were
spelled out:

    If set to On, readline adds the characters hyphen (-) and
    underscore (_) as a case variation when doing case-insensitive
    filename matching and completion.  This mapping doesn't affect
    bash's idea of case difference, for example, not in upper (-u)
    and lower (-l) case variable declare's nor features affected by
    the options 'nocaseglob' and 'nocasematch'.


   
 
   

   

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Re: why is dash confused with underscore in autocompletion? L A Walsh <bash@tlinx.org> - 2018-05-30 15:58 -0700

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