[ale] Surprised by tab expansion

[Jeff Lightner]

Nobody expects the Expansion Inquisition...

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Greg
Freemyer
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 3:23 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: [ale] Surprised by tab expansion

All,

I've been doing tab expansion for a long time, but today I could only
remember the middle portion of a dir name.

So I typed "cd /..../*123*/"

I then hit tab even though I was sure it would not work.  Instead my *
chars were replaced by the correct data.  Very cool.

Greg
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