Feature changed by: Kornel Jahn (kornel_jahn) Feature #307465, revision 8 Title: Enable zypper to auto-complete package names openSUSE-11.3: Rejected by Rémy Marquis (spyhawk) reject reason: 11.3 is out, moving to 11.4 Priority Requester: Important openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Sven Burmeister (rabauke) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: I think it would be handy if zypper could auto-complete package names as the shell can do for commands, i.e. if there is more than one possible match, show a list, if not auto-complete. Discussion: #1: Kornél Jahn (cornail) (2010-08-20 22:12:23) This seems to be the only feature that makes APT more convenient to use for a power user (considering everyday usage). #2: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) (2010-08-23 13:43:46) The problems with autocomplete is that it is usually slow. osc suffers from the same problem (i.e. 'osc add tarb<TAB>' wants to contact server, despite that being of no use.) + #3: Kornel Jahn (kornel_jahn) (2011-02-13 10:25:32) (reply to #2) + I don't think so. It is neither slow in Debian nor in Ubuntu. I have + been using them for a long time. In fact it is pretty convenient to + use. I have never used osc but for me, that seems to be a bad design of + the software. I stress again, if Debian-like distros can make it + function fast with ten thousands of packages, then if implemented + properly, it should not be slow. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307465