Re: Terminal and tab completion

Subject: Re: Terminal and tab completion Hi, The issue has been sorted. Just changed the shell from bash to I think zhs. The last time I used a text based system was back in 93 or so with MS-DOS.. Warm regards, Brandt Steenkamp Sent from my macbook pro Contact me: Mobile

Re: Terminal and tab completion

Hmm, weird. and you didn't hack your bash rc or anything of the sort? Chris. - Original Message - From: Brandt brandt.steenk...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 4:36 AM Subject: Re: Terminal and tab completion For some reason, bash did

Re: Terminal and tab completion

hack your bash rc or anything of the sort? Chris. - Original Message - From: Brandt brandt.steenk...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 4:36 AM Subject: Re: Terminal and tab completion For some reason, bash did not want to do the tab

Re: Terminal and tab completion

Subject: Re: Terminal and tab completion In all honesty, I would not know where to start doing such a thing. Warm regards, Brandt Steenkamp Sent from my macbook pro Contact me: Mobile/iMessage/WatsApp: +27781205013 Email: brandt.steenk...@gmail.com My ring to Skype: California, United States

Re: Terminal and tab completion

@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 7:50 AM Subject: Re: Terminal and tab completion In all honesty, I would not know where to start doing such a thing. Warm regards, Brandt Steenkamp Sent from my macbook pro Contact me: Mobile/iMessage/WatsApp: +27781205013 Email: brandt.steenk

Re: Terminal and tab completion

really weird that it did that. Or shall I more correctly say, didn't! do that. Chris. - Original Message - From: Brandt brandt.steenk...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 7:50 AM Subject: Re: Terminal and tab completion In all honesty, I

Re: Terminal and tab completion

to bash by default? Chris. - Original Message - From: Brandt brandt.steenk...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2013 3:30 PM Subject: Re: Terminal and tab completion Hi, The issue has been sorted. Just changed the shell from bash to I think zhs

Re: Terminal and tab completion

Hi there, There are no other directories starting with Doc, and I am not always in my home directory. Warm regards, Brandt Steenkamp Sent from my macbook pro Contact me: Mobile/iMessage/WatsApp: +27781205013 Email: brandt.steenk...@gmail.com My ring to Skype: California, United States

Re: Terminal and tab completion

Try hitting tab twice. If that does not work you probably have a customize bashed look for Filec variable. Sent from my iPhone On May 12, 2013, at 4:09 AM, Brandt brandt.steenk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, There are no other directories starting with Doc, and I am not always in my

Re: Terminal and tab completion

Hello, Can we just go back to basics and check that we understand the situation right. You are going to your applications cmd + shift + a. You are navigating to the utilities folder. You are selecting terminal? Then attempting tab completion? If you are in agreement with the above. I'm sure

Re: Terminal and tab completion

? Then attempting tab completion? If you are in agreement with the above. I'm sure the terminal is giving a response. Whether it's an error tone or a message of some description. How does the terminal respond? Have you hacked your .bashrc or .bash_prifiles? Is there more than one account

Re: Terminal and tab completion

Why would you have used zhs? Call me weird for asking, but... isn't it set to bash by default? Chris. - Original Message - From: Brandt brandt.steenk...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2013 3:30 PM Subject: Re: Terminal and tab completion Hi

Terminal and tab completion

Hi there folks, Is there anyway to have the tab key complete what you are typing into the terminal? If there is, please let me know. Thanks so long. Warm regards, Brandt Steenkamp Sent from my macbook pro Contact me: Mobile/iMessage/WatsApp: +27781205013 Email: brandt.steenk...@gmail.com

Re: Terminal and tab completion

Yes! Does it not do that for you already? It definitely should. Chris. - Original Message - From: Brandt To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com com Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2013 6:20 AM Subject: Terminal and tab completion Hi there folks, Is there anyway to have

Re: Terminal and tab completion

Hello, This is rather a complicated question, since the terminal invokes a shell and the shell is then invoking other programs and there is no mechanism in UNIX to have those other programs tell the shell what arguments they will accept. On the other hand bash and zsh and tcsh shells will all

Re: Terminal and tab completion

Hi there, In this case, typing something like cd ~/doc then hitting the tab key should complete cd ~/documents This is not happening. How do I fix the problem? Warm regards, Brandt Steenkamp Sent from my macbook pro Contact me: Mobile/iMessage/WatsApp: +27781205013 Email:

Re: Terminal and tab completion

Hi, Documents starts with a capital D. Type ~/Doc tab. Tab completion is case sensitive. -- Barry Hadder bhad...@gmail.com https://twitter.com/BarryHadder UnitMaster Available in the Mac app store. On May 11, 2013, at 11:29 AM, Brandt brandt.steenk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi

Re: Terminal and tab completion

Hi, Still no luck. Any other ideas? Warm regards, Brandt Steenkamp Sent from my macbook pro Contact me: Mobile/iMessage/WatsApp: +27781205013 Email: brandt.steenk...@gmail.com My ring to Skype: California, United States +(1)760-5140161 Extension 512 Cape Town, South Africa

Re: Terminal and tab completion

Hello, What's it's response? Do you have another directory starting with Doc? Why are you using the home identifier? Are you not at your home route? Gena On 11/05/2013 20:04, Brandt wrote: Hi, Still no luck. Any other ideas? Warm regards, Brandt Steenkamp Sent from my macbook pro