[gmx-users] Zsh completion behaves differently from bash completion

[Mark Abraham]

Hi,

Only bash is supported. I imagine zsh could be supported, but if someone is
keen to help out, then https://redmine.gromacs.org/issues/1410 would be a
great place to talk about it!

Mark

On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 at 13:22 Lorenzo Gaifas <lorenzo.gaifas at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear gromacs users,
>
> I recently tried for the first time to use gromacs in zshell, instead of
> bash as I was used to. I very quickly realised that tab completion is
> behaving differently than I expected.
> When I write for example:
> `gmx editconf'
> and press tab, as expected a `-' is suggested, and I get suggestions for
> all the possible options. However, If I write:
> `gmx ediconf -f',
> when I press tab, another `-' is added and again I get offered all the
> options. In bash, instead, completion suggests possible filenames that
> match the option.
> Why is that? Can it be fixed and, if yes, how?
>
> Best regards,
> LG
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