Questions tagged [autocomplete]
A feature provided by interactive programs such as shells and text editors that inserts text to complete a word or phrase that the user is likely intending to compose.
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How do we add a jar for intelicense
I would like to get auto completion for android.jar. I have the location to android.jar.. and location to android.jar sources. How can I configure vscode to recognize the android source during code ...
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How to disable "long descriptions" of commands in ZSH
I have a program named fhome that provides shell completion for Zsh:
$ fhome <tab>
config -- Manage system configuration
event -- Manage events
help h -- Shows a list of commands or ...
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SSH Config Host Autocomplete Command not Autocompleting
I wrote a function to get my hosts from ssh config without getting wildcard hosts:
sshConfAutoComplete() {
cat ~/.ssh/config | \
grep 'host ' | \
sed '
s#.*\*##g;
s#host ##g
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Enable filepath autocompletion when adding files with Git in Zsh
Let's say following is the output of my git status command.
On branch LG-201
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/LG-201'.
Changes not staged for commit:
(use "git add <file>..." ...
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How to disable annoying autocomplete popup on Fedora Linux?
I'm running Fedora Linux 37 on a laptop computer with a touch screen. Occasionally, some process or something triggers and I start seeing this really obnoxious text autocomplete prompt whenever I type ...
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Where to put bash-completion scripts from 3rd party programs in Fedora?
A piece of software I would like to use, xsos, comes with a bash-completion script.
Where is the correct place to store it on a Fedora system?
Should I create a generic directory in my $HOME and then ...
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How to troubleshoot bash completion for git not working in subshell
When I launch my first bash shell, completion for git works (git rest<TAB>->git restore).
After opening a second shell within the first one, tab completion is no longer working for git, but ...
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Does the implementation of a program provide the handler of the Tab-hitting event? [duplicate]
In bash, how does autocompletion know the options to complete a command?
For example,
when I hit key Tab after ls, it will list the files in the current directory.
when I hit key Tab after ebook-...
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git autocompletions in Fish: how can I disable them or speed them up?
I'm running Fish shell (3.6.0) on Ubuntu. Let's say that I'm trying to run git add foo/bar.txt . I type:
git add foo
and then I press tab . Now the shell freezes up for a few seconds. Even pressing ...
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Why the option -P of compgen does not work?
I am playing around with the programmable completion of Bash and there is something I don't quite understand.
Environment
This is what I get when I run bash --version in my terminal.
GNU bash, version ...
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Should I use `set -u` in my terminal? Why does it break autocomplete for git?
I added set -u (equiv. set -o nounset) to .bashrc, but now some tab autocompletes fail with errors about unset variables. One example is for git autocompletes.
Would this be a git autocomplete bug or ...
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Most recents files/directory suggested results by TAB completion with zsh
I would like to get with TAB suggestion on zsh to get the more recent file as first suggestion after a second TAB pushing.
For the moment, I have with a first TAB pushing the list of the more recent ...
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Custom autocompletion for zsh function
I keep several pyenv environments in ~/environments. I've got this function in my .zshrc:
actenv() {
source ~/environments/$1/bin/activate
}
Is there a way to tell zsh to autocomplete the ...
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zsh gnu-screen tab completion for `-x` flag similar to `-ls`
In bash, when I type screen -x and press tab twice, I get a list of all the running sessions.
In zsh, when I type screen -ls and press tab twice, I get a list of all the running sessions and can tab ...
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BASH: use . instead of a space for command completion
I have bash function directory located at /git/function
This is structure:
/git/function/
├── delete
│ ├── delete.dir
│ └── delete.file
├── main.sh
├── get
│├── get.dir.sh
│└── get.file.sh
How to use ...
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Zsh command history completion
How to have case insensitive in retrieving completion of command history in Zsh ?
did put setopt NOCASEGLOB in ~/.zshrc but has nothing for help
how is the correct way to do?
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Konsole auto-completion for link pointing to folder [duplicate]
Original Question
When cding into a folder through a link, auto-completes does not add the last / unless I hit tab twice. How to change that behavior?
MWE:
cd /tmp/ && mkdir test && ...
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conflict between bash and its auto-completer on the meaning of .. for symlink to directory
In my home directory /home/regis, after creating a symbolic link LINK to directory DIR/SUBDIR, and doing cd LINK, I have a conflict between bash and its auto-completer regarding what .. leads to.
For ...
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zsh completion: complete --options for custom script
I have zsh completion rule for custom script. My script can take zero or more options (starting with -) and zero or more arbitrary strings (patterns):
_arguments -S : \
'--foo' \
'--bar' \
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How to auto-complete "hashcat" options?
Is it possible to get auto-completion of hashcat command line options? What I mean is, when entering, for example, hashcat --incre, and then pressing Tab, I want that the incomplete option completed ...
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zsh vared: how to define custom completion?
I would like to launch a command that would read user input and pass each line as a new task to TaskWarrior:
#!/bin/zsh
set -e
while vared -p 'task add> ' -eca task; do eval task add "${task[@...
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set colored-stats ignores $LS_COLORS
Problem
Bash <tab> autocompletion ignores $LS_COLORS variable and uses default color values.
Setting
I have a dircolors file and just the following declarations in .bashrc:
eval `dircolors $HOME/...
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Zsh completion: move into list selection on first tab
Short Description
When I hit <tab> in zsh, I want the first completion candidate to be highlighted immediately instead of requiring me to hit <tab> a second time to focus the list.
Example
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zsh completion: complete block devices in /dev
for my script, I need to complete block devices in /dev, so that when I do
my_script.sh <TAB>
it will complete /dev/ and offer me all disks that are listed in /dev (not in subdirectories). So ...
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Bash completion on multipart word
Apologies in advance if this has been answered before, I was not able to find it searching.
In bash, I'm trying to figure out an elegant way to autocomplete a command line argument where a single word ...
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Inconsistent behavior of zsh autocompletion after oh-my-zsh install
I recently got a fresh install of Manjaro KDE and used oh-my-zsh with the powerlevel10k theme to set up my terminal, but now I am seeing strange, inconsistent behavior. If I open a terminal, I have ...
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Tab completion and Mobaxterm
I am using Mobaxterm to access cluster that is running on Bash. I have an absurd, but very annoying issue.
When I installed Mobaxterm, Tab completion would end the path with a / and if you press it ...
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zsh completion: duplicate commands
Lets say I have an alias for grep. When I use zsh completion, it will offer grep twice (once as command, once as alias):
gr<TAB>
grep
grep
I found I can use ignored-patterns specifically for ...
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Zsh autocompletion for git bare repos
This is the completion code in my .zshrc:
autoload -U compinit
zstyle ':completion:*' matcher-list 'm:{a-zA-Z}={A-Za-z}'
zstyle ':completion:*' menu select
zmodload zsh/complist
compinit
_comp_options+...
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How can I can autocomplete for my custom command, based on the name of files in another directory?
This is my requirement. We have a custom Ssh command that uses ssh under the hood, but automatically provides some options based on some conditions.
For example, our developers can write Ssh example....
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Don't jump to the end of the word after inword (completeinword) completion in zsh
I've been able to turn on autocompletion when the cursor is in the word: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/736909/556055
But the whole point was that I can accept an autocompletion and resume typing ...
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Configure zsh to use tab autocompletion when in the middle of a word (ignore chars after the cursor) like in bash
In bash (\bash --noprofile --norc) when the caret/carriage/cursor (|) is in the middle of a word (l|!@#asdf) you can double Tab to show suggestions (ls for this example) for the word before the caret (...
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Path-like search for a file
Basically I am trying to get something similar to command search with $PATH, but with a different list of directories and the file I'm searching for is not executable.
The list of directories is fixed ...
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Zsh: make single file selection smart, stylish, and functionally correct (highlights, completions below cursor, etc)
I would like to have a near-flawless "single file selector" with zsh. So far I haven't seen one in questions as they tend to focus on zle settings for one's command line. Let's say we are ...
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Stop '@' in alias name preventing bash completion
On one laptop I have bash aliases for ssh-ing into various machines of the form
loris@machineA
loris@machineB
On this machine I can type
loris@<TAB>
and bash will show me possible completions.
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How to build tab completion for string
I have the following code (taken from https://web.archive.org/web/20190402231844/https://debian-administration.org/article/317/An_introduction_to_bash_completion_part_2):
_foo()
{
local cur prev ...
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Suppress warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
When I run egrep, it shows warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
But I'm using it as part of my shell autocomplete script that I often use, and I don't want to rewrite them.
I'm looking for way ...
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zsh: How to identify which file zsh completion function comes from?
In zsh, how can one know which file a completion function is defined in or comes from?
which can print the source code of a completion but it does not give any information about where I can find the ...
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Bash auto-completion slow: /bin/bash hangs at rl_getc
When pressing tab to autocomplete a command (e.g. cd) bash hangs for a couple of seconds before completing it.
when using set -x nothing is printed prior to the hang
When using a tty console from ...
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Complete a positional argument only once
I'm trying to write a completion for a command (call it gs) that takes an SSH hostname as its first argument, and an arbitrary string as the second argument.
I've stolen this from the default SSH ...
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dc3dd, why tab completion doesn't work?
On Slackware 15.
Using dd I do
dd if=/home/myuser/my..TAB and complete dir path after pressing tab
using dc3dd I did
dc3dd if=/home/myuser/my..TAB and nothing happen.
Why?
I have tried with rlwrap but ...
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Fish completion that depends on other flags
I have a command, that can connect to remote machines and so the completion should be based on which machine the user provided. That means that if the user pass -D DEVICE_ID I want the completion to ...
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Avoiding support bash functions to show up in terminal sessions when tab-completing
I have a number of bash functions which I source from my .bashrc. I also have a bunch of support function that are needed but do not want them to show up in a terminal session when a user does tab-...
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How having insensitive-case the Bash history completion [duplicate]
Is there a setting to enable case-insensitive history completion for Bash?
I tried tab-completing cd s with cd Socket/in in my history but it didn't complete.
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How can I configure zsh completion to exclude `.` and `..`?
I configured my zsh following this answer. Then I found the completion now includes . and ... How do I remove them?
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zsh glob qualifier with negated null glob works like it should with null glob
Note: Please don't respond about this being a XY situation. I am trying to understand how a globbing pattern works, not trying to achieve a specific result. Am also not interested in other ways to ...
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Particular bash completion files not working when in /usr/share/bash-completion/completions but work fine in /etc/bash_completion.d
I have a git repository where I keep some statically-linked binaries along with related man files and bash completion files, which are all 'installed' using GNU Stow to make the symlinks.
I have ...
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compgen -o nospace option without effect
I'm trying to create a command completion function, and I was following this guide.
This is approximately how it looks:
function __my_completion ()
{
local cur prev opts opts_log opts_import
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TAB expanding filenames after make command in bash
I'm preparing a makefile for converting org files to markdown files with the use of pandoc. Its content looks like this (note that conversion rule is just for a reference):
%.md: %.org
pandoc -t ...
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zsh: ignore symbolic links in completion list returned by _files
I am new to writing zsh completions. How can I ignore symbolic links from showing in completion returned by _files -W /path/to/folder/?
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