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From: Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl>
To: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: svn commit: r209221 - head/bin/sh
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On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 03:10:11PM -0700, Colin Percival wrote:
> Jilles Tjoelker wrote:
> >   Unlike NetBSD, there is no 'set +o tabcomplete' option to disable
> >   completion. I do not see any reason for such a special treatment, as
> >   completion is rather useful and it is possible to do
> >     bind ^I ed-insert
> >   to disable completion and insert a tab character instead.

> For what it's worth, I find that having tab completion disabled is very useful
> when I paste pieces of shell script into consoles.  If other people also do
> this, it might be an argument in favour of providing a more user-friendly way
> to disable tab completion.

Hmm. zsh treats a tab on an empty line as a literal tab character, not
completion. That allows most pasting but still allow normal access to
completion. (Still a problem if you IFS='<Tab>' though.)

-- 
Jilles Tjoelker