From bug-octave-request  Wed Sep 15 15:57:52 1993
Subject: Strange command line completions
From: esm (Edward Scott Meadows)
To: bug-octave
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 93 15:57:49 -0500

I'm not on the xterm and command line completion doesn't work in emacs
using shell, so I'm able to only describe the problem rather than
duplicate it verbatim.

(1)  I was wondering how to set the number of lines per screen in
octave, so I typed "help scrren" intending to type "help screen."

(2)  Octave produced an error message indicating that no help was
available for "scrren".

(3)  I then type "help sc" and hit the tab key for command line
completion.

(4)  Octave offers three options for completing the line.  One of them
is "scrren."

(5)  I then typed "help scrr" and then the tab key to see if Octave
would (incorrectly) complete my command with "help scrren."

(6) Octave happily completed my command to make "help scrren" and,
after entering the bogus command, proceeded to tell me that no help
was available.

(7)  "scrren" was happily offered as a possible command line
completion for the remainder of the Octave session.

--esm