Re: [ANN] luaprompt 0.6

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Brigham Toskin
<brighamtoskin@gmail.com> wrote:
>>   - Could you do rotating tab completion instead of only to the prefix?
>>     i.e. pr<tab> might complete to 'prompt', but pressing <tab> again
>> would change to 'print'
>>
>
> Have you ever come across a program that has this behavior? I think I would
> find it confusing, since in my experience, ambiguous completions are usually
> either just given the first match it finds, or it prints a list of partial
> matches, prompting you to type a longer substring to specify which one you
> meant.

I don't LIKE this behavior, but I HAVE encountered it before. It's
more common in editors rather than shells -- this is the behavior of
the autocomplete dropdown in many IDEs, as well as the behavior of
vim's command line.

/s/ Adam