a feature provided by interactive programs such as shells and text editors that inserts text in order to complete a word or phrase that the user is likely intending to compose
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zsh equivalent of bash show-all-if-ambiguous?
In bash, if you hit tab when there are multiple possible completions you get a list of matches that keeps reprinting if you repeatedly press tab. In tcsh, setting autocomplete to enhanced also ...
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An easy bash completion tutorial?
I want to learn how to write bash completion scripts. Which tutorial would you recommend for a newbie?
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How to pipe the list of commands displayed by of “tab complete”?
When using commands in bash I like the double tab option to display the available commands. Some commands have more possible matches than others:
Is there a way I can pipe the output of the double ...
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How do I get bash completion for command aliases?
I am looking to get tab-completion on my command line aliases, for example, say I defined the following alias :
alias apt-inst='sudo aptitude install'
Is there a way to get the completions ...
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How can I expand a relative path at the command line, with tab completion?
In bash is there any way to expand a relative path into an absolute path, perhaps with tab completion?
I ask because sometimes I will search for a file, find it, then vim it:
cd /etc
cd apache2
cd ...
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rebuild auto-complete index (or whatever it's called)
After installing new software, an already opened terminal with zsh won't know about the new commands, and cannot generate auto-complete for those. Apparently opening a new terminal fix the problem, ...
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scp: How to Enable Autocompletion for Remote Paths?
I remote copied a file to my laptop using:
scp someFile USER@192.168.178.32:/home/USER/put/it/some/where/oh/damn/you/here
I am too lazy for this! I want to be able to autocomplete the remote path ...
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Terminal autocomplete: cycle through suggestions
I had this on my Ubuntu setup and since I switched to Fedora I want to set it and I forgot how... The idea is simple :
I don't want the terminal to show me suggestions when I double tab, instead I ...
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How to output string completions to stdout?
Some of the git commands have many options, and it would often be useful to search through them for the one I need - I was just looking for the option which controls the TAB width in git-gui, but ...
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Bash remote autocompletion : change the 'starting' directory
I'm regularly downloading files from a remote server, always from the same directory. So I wrote a custom function that I put in my bashrc:
download_from_myserver () {
for file in "$@"
do
...
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How to enable tab completion of wildcards in bash?
How can I enable tab completion in bash for a statement such as vim db/migrate/*crea? Essentially I am looking for tab completion to match the regular expression and present the options.
How would ...
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zsh - fully expand binary path on <tab>
In my current zsh behaviour, hitting tab after typing "sudo" just adds a space.
$ sudo ...
What I really want is for the tab to fully expand to the path of the binary it is about to execute when I ...
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Stop tab completion suggesting 'messagebus'
I've got a directory called build, which I cd into quite a bit.
If there isn't any directory bu* in the current directory, zsh tab completion: cd buTAB suggests messagebus/, which isn't in .. If I ...
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autocomplete filenames using compgen
As part of a larger autocomplete function I'm writing, I want to use compgen to generate a list of files. I read the bash manual entries for compgen and complete, and from there I assumed that the ...
