I just got off a Windows 7 terminal which has rotating tab completion, this means that in the case of completion ambiguity the shell completes one of the possibilities, and subsequent tabs complete to different possibilities. This in contrast to bash's behaviour of simply printing a list of possibilities.
Googling I have found that bash can in fact have rotating completion by setting "\C-i": menu-complete. However, I would really like the first tab to show the possibilities (default behaviour, albeit on the second tab), and subsequent tabs to rotate. I can't figure this out. Any ideas?
Thanks!
Hi Dotan,
have you already installed this:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/repoview/bash-completion...
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Dotan Cohen dotancohen@gmail.com wrote:
I just got off a Windows 7 terminal which has rotating tab completion, this means that in the case of completion ambiguity the shell completes one of the possibilities, and subsequent tabs complete to different possibilities. This in contrast to bash's behaviour of simply printing a list of possibilities.
Googling I have found that bash can in fact have rotating completion by setting "\C-i": menu-complete. However, I would really like the first tab to show the possibilities (default behaviour, albeit on the second tab), and subsequent tabs to rotate. I can't figure this out. Any ideas?
Thanks!
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On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 17:24, yonatan pingle yonatan.pingle@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Dotan,
have you already installed this:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/repoview/bash-completion...
Nice, thanks. I was certain that I'm not the first to want this.
Is there any way to configure this without the bash-completion package, for instance for use on the university students' server? (which I'm not even sure is RH based, it's something old and probably home-grown)
Hello Dotan,
you might want to ask your sysadmin about this, it's a package that can be compiled from source. last time a checked ( a long time back ), they use both redhat 7.3 and solaris as the core system in the univ ( in tel-aviv at least ).
you can check the system version & type with a simple cat /etc/issue , or cat /etc/*relea* if it's a centos based system, the admin would have to install the package manually , or install the epel repo and use yum the proper way.
most of the end users don't even use the terminal, so this is not a common question, and i am sure the root admin will be glad to help you with this.
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Dotan Cohen dotancohen@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 17:24, yonatan pingle yonatan.pingle@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Dotan,
have you already installed this:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/repoview/bash-completion...
Nice, thanks. I was certain that I'm not the first to want this.
Is there any way to configure this without the bash-completion package, for instance for use on the university students' server? (which I'm not even sure is RH based, it's something old and probably home-grown)
-- Dotan Cohen
http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 17:49, yonatan pingle yonatan.pingle@gmail.com wrote:
Hello Dotan,
you might want to ask your sysadmin about this, it's a package that can be compiled from source. last time a checked ( a long time back ), they use both redhat 7.3 and solaris as the core system in the univ ( in tel-aviv at least ).
Thanks, this is at the Technion but I can ask.
you can check the system version & type with a simple cat /etc/issue , or cat /etc/*relea* if it's a centos based system, the admin would have to install the package manually , or install the epel repo and use yum the proper way.
most of the end users don't even use the terminal, so this is not a common question, and i am sure the root admin will be glad to help you with this.
I know. Most people have never even heard of Putty today.
Thanks.
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