Re: Re: funny text in bash history
> I do A LOT of computing from terminals... and use arrow up and down > ALL THE TIME.. Autocomplete would so ROCK! "Tab completion" is the key phrase. Assuming you use bash: When you want to complete a command or filename, press the Tab key. If the choices are ambiguous, you'll need to press Tab again. You can fine-tune the tab-completion behaviour with variables in ~/.inputrc - run "man bash" and search for "Readline Variables" for details. That's just for starters. Install the bash-completion package, un-comment the code in ~/.bashrc following the "enable programmable completion features" comment, and start a new shell. Now when you start typing and press Tab, it will offer all sorts of completions in context, e.g. command options, hostnames, and more. Rock on! -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140928170410.GA32403@rimmer.localdomain
Re: Re: funny text in bash history
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 06:04:18PM +0100, Clive Standbridge wrote: > That's just for starters. Install the bash-completion package, > un-comment the code in ~/.bashrc following the "enable programmable > completion features" comment, and start a new shell. > > Now when you start typing and press Tab, it will offer all sorts of > completions in context, e.g. command options, hostnames, and more. > > Rock on! ---end quoted text--- Hey, Clive thats pretty handy, thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140929213424.GB17517@Jessie
