Vista - TabExpansion Character Index?

I'd like to do tab-expansion across an escaped space character (" "),
but I can't because of how the word is broken up. I was thinking that it
might work if I had the character index of the cursor w.r.t. the line;
with that, I can back-parse any escaped characters...

Better yet, can you make it treat an escaped character as part of the word?

Nick

Well, as I just discovered, a bug somewhere in my code is causing the
space problem...better look more carefully at my regexes.

It would still be nice to grab the cursor index, though...

Nick

Nick Howell wrote:
> I'd like to do tab-expansion across an escaped space character (" "),
> but I can't because of how the word is broken up. I was thinking that it
> might work if I had the character index of the cursor w.r.t. the line;
> with that, I can back-parse any escaped characters...
>
> Better yet, can you make it treat an escaped character as part of the word?
>
> Nick

"Nick Howell" wrote:

> It would still be nice to grab the cursor index, though...

Not sure if this is what you mean:

[console]::get_CursorLeft()

This will return the console cursor's x-position.
However, this might depend on the width of your prompt.

--
greetings
dreeschkind

Ah! Didn't think of that...I can probably measure prompt, so should be
OK...I'll have to experiment...

dreeschkind wrote:
> "Nick Howell" wrote:
>
>> It would still be nice to grab the cursor index, though...
>
> Not sure if this is what you mean:
>
> [console]::get_CursorLeft()
>
> This will return the console cursor's x-position.
> However, this might depend on the width of your prompt.
>
> --
> greetings
> dreeschkind