Gnome Terminal autocomplete
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From: Andrew on 9 Apr 2010 14:40 I have a Gnome Terminal question for you. In windows I've always set up the cmd window to be able to accept tab to get me to the closest thing I am typing in the dir structure... e.g. If I need to go to the desktop I can type "cd\user\myusername\desk TAB" and it autocompletes the command. Is there a way to enable this autocomplete in the gnome terminal? Running SuSE LED 11. Thanks, -- Andrew
From: J G Miller on 9 Apr 2010 15:23 On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:01:15 +0200, Houghi wrote: > It could be that if you use some other shell, it might not work, > but then if you would run another, you would not ask the question. Why would he not ask the question? There is no auto-completion <TAB> feature in Bourne shell or C Shell, but there is in tcsh and if the autolist shell variable is set, the shell lists the remaining choices (if any) whenever completion fails. As far as I am aware the auto-completion facility should be available also in zsh and ksh, but for the latter my vague recollection is that it may require the use of <ESC> rather than <TAB>.
From: J G Miller on 9 Apr 2010 18:23 Op Vrijdag, 09 April, 2010 23:44:02 +0200, Houghi schreef: > On openSUSE in Bash there is. I use it all the time. That has never been in dispute. As well as TAB completion of directory and filenames, there is even the directory /etc/bash_completion.d/ with scripts from installed software to extend the behavior of bash completions for those specific commands. As far as I recall this feature, which had been available for many years previous in tcsh, was added to bash in version 3.0.
From: David Bolt on 9 Apr 2010 18:44 On Friday 09 Apr 2010 23:23, while playing with a tin of spray paint, J G Miller painted this mural: > Op Vrijdag, 09 April, 2010 23:44:02 +0200, Houghi schreef: > >> On openSUSE in Bash there is. I use it all the time. > > That has never been in dispute. > > As well as TAB completion of directory and filenames, > there is even the directory /etc/bash_completion.d/ > with scripts from installed software to extend the > behavior of bash completions for those specific > commands. > > As far as I recall this feature, which had been available > for many years previous in tcsh, was added to bash > in version 3.0. It was in bash 2.05, dating back to 2004. According to the description of bash-completion, it's been there since bash 2.04. davjam(a)thargon:~> bash --version GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (i586-suse-linux) Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. davjam(a)thargon:~> davjam(a)thargon:~> fr frame franc2euro free freetype-config frink franc2dm franc2lira freetemp fribidi davjam(a)thargon:~> davjam(a)thargon:~> cat /etc/SuSE-release SuSE Linux 9.1 (i586) VERSION = 9.1 davjam(a)thargon:~> davjam(a)thargon:~> rpm -qa "*bash*" bash-2.05b-305.1 bash-completion-20030721-122 davjam(a)thargon:~> davjam(a)thargon:~> rpm -qi bash-completion Name : bash-completion Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 20030721 Vendor: SuSE Linux AG, Nuernberg, Germany Release : 122 Build Date: Tue 06 Apr 2004 02:16:11 BST Install date: Mon 01 Nov 2004 18:29:35 GMT Build Host: Chabrol.suse.de Group : System/Shells Source RPM: bash-completion-20030721-122.src.rpm Size : 140918 License: GPL Signature : DSA/SHA1, Tue 06 Apr 2004 02:22:22 BST, Key ID a84edae89c800aca Packager : http://www.suse.de/feedback URL : http://www.caliban.org/bash/index.shtml#completion Summary : Programmable completion for bash Description : bash-completion is a collection of shell functions that take advantage of the programmable completion feature of bash 2.04 and later. Authors: -------- Ian Macdonald <ian(a)caliban.org> Distribution: SuSE Linux 9.1 (i586) davjam(a)thargon:~> Regards, David Bolt -- Team Acorn: www.distributed.net OGR-NG @ ~100Mnodes RC5-72 @ ~1Mkeys/s openSUSE 11.0 32b | | | openSUSE 11.3M4 32b openSUSE 11.0 64b | openSUSE 11.1 64b | openSUSE 11.2 64b | TOS 4.02 | openSUSE 11.1 PPC | RISC OS 4.02 | RISC OS 3.11
From: J G Miller on 9 Apr 2010 21:49
Op Zaterdag, 10 April 2010 01:14:21 +0200, Houghi schreef: > J G Miller wrote: >> Op Vrijdag, 09 April, 2010 23:44:02 +0200, Houghi schreef: >> >>> On openSUSE in Bash there is. I use it all the time. >> >> That has never been in dispute. > > Then I misunderstood the following: > <q> > There is no auto-completion <TAB> feature in Bourne shell or C Shell, > </q> > > I understood that there was said that there was no auto-completion in > bash. I re-read it now several times and I still think that is what it > means. So that is the reason that I wrote what I wrote. I think you are confusing the Bourne shell (sh) [no autocompletion] with the Bourne-Again Shell (bash) [well developed autocompletion]. As it name implies, bash is based on the Bourne shell. The Bourne shell was developed by Stephen Bourne, of AT&T Bell Laboratories, and was released in 1977. Bash was created in 1987 by Brian Fox. Hope that helps to clear up any misunderstanding ;) |