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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remove a host from the completion list for ssh in zsh

I once had some hosts named 'myhost', 'myhost1', etc. And now all those except 'myhost3' become invalid. I removed those from /etc/hosts and ~/.ssh/known_hosts, but zsh still completes them for me. Is ...
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Need help on this bash auto completion script

I'm trying to setup autocompletion for a command, which takes only one parameter, a folder name, In /secure/kernel_builds/, I have the three following subfolder: 3.5.6/ 3.6.2/ source/ Now I want ...
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Trouble w/ bash programmable completion of filenames matching patterns

I've got a simple command named th. I've got a bash-completion file for it that goes as follows: _th() { COMPREPLY=() local curr=${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]} COMPREPLY=( $(compgen -f -X ...
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How to make ZSH tab completion work with two tabs

I saw a question like this on here, but the answer didn't work for me. I'm trying to set up tab completion and I want it that if I have two files fileA and fileB and I type fil<tab> it first ...
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Phrase Express Equivalent for Linux?

Is there some sort of auto text-insertion program with macros, similar to PhraseExpress for Windows in Linux?
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zsh: how to fix tab completion so it doesn't hide entries?

I'm using oh-my-zsh on Mac OS X with homebrew'ed zsh 4.3.12. I stumbled recently on a weird problem. In scripts/not-used I have several .R files: breakdowns.R eventloop.R ...
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How to debug and fix slow autocomplete in bash?

After a recent update (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS), TAB complete on the command line is slow. After entering a partial command (e.g evi [TAB]) or partial filename (e.g. evince somedocu[TAB]) the shell, ...
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How to enable local ~ autocompletion for scp?

Whenever I want to copy a file from my home directory, I run into the same issue: scp (using openssh-client 1:5.9p1-5ubuntu1, GNU bash, version 4.2.24(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)) won't ...
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Completing avfs fake directories in zsh

How can I tweak zsh's completion system to complete “fake” files in some circumstances? More precisely, the AVFS filesystem exposes archives as directories by creating a “fake directory” next to ...
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How to mimic bash tab completion behavior on OS X when using Linux

I'm an OS X user who's used to ssh'ing into various Linux machines. Recently, I installed Ubuntu on one of our servers and have noticed very different tab completion behavior in bash. Among other ...