[CentOS] Bash rotating tab completion with list

yonatan pingle yonatan.pingle at gmail.com
Mon Jun 13 14:24:45 UTC 2011


Hi Dotan,

have you already installed this:

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/repoview/bash-completion.html



On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at 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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