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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Force Bash normal tab completion if intelligent completion fails
Since tab completion became a standard feature in shells I have been a very happy user of it. I even like Bash's intelligent completion (where it only searches for PDF files, if I type evince ...
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ZSH autocompletion gives seemingly random errors after some time
My zsh autocompletion is broken in a strange way. For clean logins everything works but after some time I will get seemingly random autocompletion errors, for different "kinds" of autocompletion. ...
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Call vared and complete files from a different directory
I have the following zsh function which lets me edit symbolic links using the vared ZLE builtin.
function lned {
emulate zsh
setopt err_return extended_glob local_options local_traps
local -a ...
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Bash tab completion stop searching
When I am typing into bash and I press the "tab" key to auto complete, sometimes it takes a significant time. E.g., file IO to read directories takes >5 seconds, and thus I am hung waiting for IO to ...
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Manual tab completions in zsh
I would like nm[TAB] to expand to node_modules in zsh. Is this possible? How can it be done?
Ideally, it wouldn't be triggered if there is another completion available, such as an already existing nm ...
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Show completions under the prompt in Fish
Is there a way I can get the ultra compact auto-complete function from Zsh in Fish, so If I press Tab it won't write me all the possibilities permanently into my terminal but underneath the prompt?
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Command completion does not complete the files in the current directory
Something is wrong with my tab completion.
Let's say I do this:
cd test // works fine, go into test directory
ls // works fine, displays all of the files
Let's assume I have the following files:
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compgen warning: -C option not working as I expected
What is the correct way to use the compgen -C option?
I'm trying to learn about Bash programmable completion, and in particular the compgen builtin function. I'm experimenting with the different ...
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Zsh auto complete suggest complete functions (_git _vim etc)
I have a small annoyance with how zsh is doing complete suggestions for my commands.
If I type the beginning of a command that I don't have installed and press tab it will suggest the completion ...
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How can I add autocomplete for “gem which” with rbenv?
I am using rbenv on Mac OS X. I have autocomplete functionality already for the gem command:
$ gem
build environment lock query stale
cert fetch ...
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How to add all binaries to bash tab completion for some command?
I've installed program trickle that allow to throttle the net for specified command like:
trickle -u10 -d10 <COMMAND>
How to add bash completion for all binaries to trickle command?
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Tab completion of “../” in zsh
One noob question from a new zsh user:
In bash, I can use tab-completion to move one directory up and descend down again another path. For example, suppose I'm in $HOME/folder1, and I want to cd to ...
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zsh completion installations (autojump) - How to use them?
I just installed autojump. I have included the log of the installation at the bottom of this post. Note that at the end it says:
zsh completion has been installed to:
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Bash autocompletion for an environment variable holding a directory name
I'm using, among other things, bash 4.2.37 on Linux Mint 14.
When I autocomplete the name of an environment variable by typing Tab, it expands to the name of the variable followed by a space.
If the ...
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How to add pattern to bash completion (for unzip)?
When I type
unzip <tab>
I get a list of all files ending in .zip, which is the standard behavior of tab completion for the unzip command.
However, I also want bash completion for unzip ...
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Zsh completion of hadoop commands
Hadoop has a range of commands and subcommands to specify different operations on MapReduce, HFS etc. (e.g. hadoop dfs can be followed by any command from this list).
Is there any way to enable ...
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zsh completion and unknow bzr commands
ZSH's Bazaar completion does not offer any expansion/completion when it does not know the bzr subcommand I am using. In my case, I use bzr qlog but ZSH's /usr/share/zsh/5.0.2/functions/_bzr does not ...
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Guess complete filename
I have some files with really long names lying around on my server and writing the complete names is kind of a pita so I'm asking if my Linux system (Debian 7) can guess the complete filename?
I want ...
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code review: automatic completion for bash aliases
I was reading How do I get bash completion for command aliases? and I thought, that the answer Shawn J. Goff needed a little something: less user setup so I wrote a little script that is intended to ...
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bash_completion for initscripts
I have writen my own initscript /etc/init.d/myscript. I can start and stop my script with the service command
service myscript start
service myscript stop
When I type service <TAB>, ...
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How to cd open / autocomplete a folder that ends in a specific phrase
I have a folder with subfolders named like this:
1122334 important things
1122335 less important things
1122336 notes
1122337 pictures of kittens
etc
The numbers at the beginning are date codes. ...
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Tab auto completion doesn't work with apt-get install (kubuntu)
I've noticed a strange behavior of my shell on Kubuntu. Auto completion doesn't work well when I try to install new software. It works only for default commands (when I type "apt-get inst" and I press ...
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ZSH and completion of files with newline characters
I am experimenting with ZSH on nasty file names, especially file names with the newline character in it.
Here is how I create them:
$ touch "filename<hit return here>
1"
$ touch ...
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How to globally enable all of Gentoo's bash completions at once?
eselect bashcomp enable unfortunately seems to lack a --all option, and I certainly don't want to manually activate each of the 194 entries. Can this be automated somehow, and set up such that ...
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FreeBSD csh, TAB to show available choices?
I am a newbie to FreeBSD.
How can i configure csh or tcsh to show available choices by pressing TAB twice, just like bash?
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How can I get Bash to display the auto-completion definitions for a given command?
I use module command to load and unload stuff to my environment, some of the machines I use have proper auto-completion others do not.
I'm wondering if I it possible to know where the completion ...
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Make zsh show autocomplete choices even when a possible match is entered
On my current system (openSUSE 12.3 with zsh 5.0.2) the autocomplete function does not give me a choice of possible completions if I have already entered a possible completion match.
For example, if ...
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Zsh completion that is insensitive between `_` and `-`
I don't like typing underscores, and would like to type a dash instead, and have zsh autocompletion treat it like it could be either a dash or an underscore.
Is this possible with built-in zsh ...
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Disable Bash autocompletion for a specific command only
Is it possible to disable Bash's autocompletion for a specific command only?
Use case: For obvious reasons, I would like to disable autocompletion for the rm command when I'm root. It would also be a ...
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prevent bash completion from altering underscore variable $_
When using tab completion in bash, the $_ variable is altered:
$ mkdir test
$ cd <TAB><TAB> $_
bash: cd: -d: invalid option
cd: usage: cd [-L|[-P [-e]]] [dir]
(The ...
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How do I store long hostnames list for SSH quick usage?
I have an SSH access to a lot of servers. And all that hostnames (and sometimes usernames) are long and hard to remember. Also even if I tweak my Terminal to keep eternal bash history, the using of ...
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How can I autocomplete each parameter in a different way?
I have a function called load_pg, which is defined like this:
load_pg () {
pg_restore --verbose --clean --no-acl --no-owner -h localhost -U $1 -d $2 $3
}
And I'm trying to autocomplete each ...
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How can I reset the bash filename completion for “more”?
I've done something that has changed the way TAB auto-complete works, but only for the more command.
Every other command lists the possible completions, but more now lists ALL of the possibilities ...
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Variable name completion in ksh
While I am in bash , I am able to do a tab complete with environment variable names, but with ksh I am not able to do so. How can I get it done with KSH?
I am using mksh with cygwin.
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Cancel completion, but only completion, in zsh
When a completion function takes a long time, I can interrupt it by pressing Ctrl+C (terminal interrupt key, sends SIGINT) or Ctrl+G (bound to send-break). I am then left with the uncompleted word.
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Select unicode filename in Bash
Ok; suppose I'm in Bash and I have several files in a folder. Several of them are named file☠☡☢☣.txt, where ☠☡☢☣ starts with crazy untypable unicode characters. How would I refer to one of them? ...
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How to order files by date in tab completion list
$ 7z l ~/Downloads/Tab
How to make the resulting list to be sorted by date, not by name?
I currently use special script to list N most recent files in a given directory (and copy the filename ...
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Autocomplete newest file
I have a process which creates text files whose filenames are based on the timestamp of their moment of creation:
$ ls
1378971222.txt
1378971254.txt
1378971482.txt
1378971488.txt
1378972089.txt
...
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Zsh completion for mounts (/run/media/DISK-LABEL)?
I am looking or zsh functionality to expand disk-labels into mountpoins:
Example: I have disk with label DISK-LABEL1 mounted on /run/media/god/DISK-LABEL1.
Is there a plugin which expands input ...
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Vim autocomplete to include punctuation between words
I'm currently programming in Tcl/Tk. I have some widgets called .entry,stdin and .entry,stdout and I'm using supertab for autocompletion. The comma is there because I'm using a package called gridplus ...
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Enable Bash-Completion to expand Superuser executables to full path
I'm running OpenSUSE 12.3 (and have seen the behavior since 11), and have found that I can't call Superuser programs (e.g. shutdown, reboot) without using the full path. For me, many of these ...
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Git completions for aliases only available after running `git reflog`
I have a few aliases that I want to autocomplete for git, e.g., the following
alias gco="git checkout"
When I was attempting to add completions for this alias, I looked around in my path and saw ...
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zsh expand-or-complete for all files regardless of command/context
zsh has a feature where command line tab-completion performs context-aware completions, so you can do things like:
# Good:
$ wget g<tab> # becomes:
$ wget gopher://
$ wget --hea<tab> ...
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zsh adds tab character when autocompleting
I have zsh 4.3.10 installed on a RHEL 6.4 box. I'm not sure why this happens, but when I but Tab to autocomplete things, it also adds a tab character.
For example:
rocket@rhelbox www % vim vim
...
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Zsh completion, enabling shift-tab
When zsh shows you a menu of possible completions, I'd like it to let me use shift-tab to access previous completion entries--is there an option that controls what key is used to access previous ...
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Make zsh completion show the first guess on the same line (like fish's)
In Fish when you start typing, autocompletion automatically shows the first autocompleted guess on the line itself.
In zsh you have to hit tab, and it shows the autocompletion below. Is there anyway ...
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Autocomplete doesn't work for file parameters to jarsigner
I'm using Lubuntu 12.10. Assume I've got a file called test.apk in my current folder.
1.) In LXTerminal/bash if I type,
adb install t<TAB>
the terminal autocompletes it correctly to ...
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How to make a custom bash tab completion? [duplicate]
I want to make tab completion to complete on specific programs in path although there maybe other possible completion in path.
For example, if I type mpl and tab, it should complete to mplayer ...
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Unable to autocomplete ONLY when typing a make command
I'm running Ubuntu Linux 10.04.
And I have the following in my .bashrc file:
if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ] && ! shopt -oq posix; then
. /etc/bash_completion
fi
I'm having a problem ...
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Tab autocomplete for files with spaces in it [closed]
How do I tab autocomplete for files with spaces in it? Thanks.
