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How pipe the output 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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Saving tab completion possibilities to a file
Instead of displaying all possibilities on terminal screen, as in:
$ ls /etc/<TAB>
Display all 230 possibilities? (y or n)
I want to save all possibilities to a file.
ls /etc/ > file.txt ...
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How to disable emacs here document completion
When editing a bash script file with emacs, and trying to enter <<<, at the second < emacs insert a template for a here document, like in the following example:
<<EOF
EOF
This is ...
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Tab autocompletion and history in tcsh
I use tcsh, and I'd like to set up the following behaviour, which I've seen on some systems in the past. If I type
!string TAB
then:
If the history contains a unique entry beginning with string, ...
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compgen : ignoring case
I'm trying to implement a custom bash completion as described here. However, it seems that compgen is case-sensitive. Is there a way to turn it case-insensitive in that context ?
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Make BASH's Tab Completion Fill In First Match?
Is there any way to make BASH fill in the first match when I press TAB, kind of like the Windows command prompt?
(It should still display the list of matches, but it should cycle through them when I ...
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is there a way to set coloring for cd tab complete?
I use ubuntu 11.04.
Is there a way to set coloring for output after tab completion listing of a cd, ls, or etc. ?
i.e.
myshell@root$ cd ~/user/files/ I hit tab...
myfile myfoo mybar <-- this ...
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ZSH tab completion: only complete files and not binaries
Is it possible to make a custom zsh completion file,so when hitting tab for filenames it avoids completing the binaries?
For example,I have 2 files , myprogram.c and myprogram,the binary,is it ...
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Tab-completion for Mercurial in Bash?
Using Subversion on the command-line, it intelligently tab-completes available subcommands, etc:
$ svn c<tab>
cat checkout cl co copy
changelist ci ...
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Bash and Tab Auto-complete
I recently put Fedora Core 15 on my system, and I've had a behaviour change that I can't figure out. Using Tab-Complete in the BASH shell works fine except when I use the $HOME variable.
If I type cd ...
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1answer
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_path_files and compadd ignore-files parameter
What is the format for the -F option of _path_files and compadd?
I'm passing several directories to _path_files:
_path_files -W "($base_directories)" -/
But some of those directory trees I don't ...
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How to have autocomplete ignore a specific completion
I've got auto-completion working for bash. When I type part of a program name, and then TAB, I get the full command. Works like expected, no complaints.
However on my setup I've got an alias defined ...
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Weird Stuff in Terminal When I Hit Tab
For some reason, today, everytime I hit tab in the terminal this shows up:
cat bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (en_CA)
Display all 150 possibilities? (y or n)
This ...
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How to change the target directory for tab completion?
I found a short script to enable note-taking on onethingwell, which includes this:
function n { nano ~/n/$1.txt }
I'd like to extend it to do tab completion, so that if I want to edit the ...
