Re^2: Using Tab Completion on Windows in cmd.exe

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in thread Using Tab Completion on Windows in cmd.exe

Well, Stamm wants to write a console Perl script that features tab completion. It seems most (all?) Perl modules tested so far seem to rely on some unix feature or other, or just don't support tab completion.

Tab completion does not necessarily means name completion. For example, an interactive Eliza program might use it as well. So if the user types

# I like tab c(tab)

tab completion might turn it into

# I like tab completion.

to which the correct response would be of course

Tell me more.

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Re^3: Using Tab Completion on Windows in cmd.exe by ikegami (Patriarch) on Nov 24, 2011 at 22:18 UTC
Ok, so not in cmd, but at his own prompt.	[reply]
Re^4: Using Tab Completion on Windows in cmd.exe by Stamm (Sexton) on Nov 25, 2011 at 19:31 UTC
Sorry for the misleading title. I used cmd.exe to say Windows vanilla shell instead of fancy stuff like powershell or cygwin.	[reply]
Re^5: Using Tab Completion on Windows in cmd.exe by ikegami (Patriarch) on Nov 26, 2011 at 00:39 UTC
You're making it worse; your question doesn't have anything to do with any of those.	[reply]

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