ctrl-o (was Re: Rogue Filename - Can't Do A Thing With It)

[Dave Sherohman <dave@sherohman.org>]

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 10:23:13AM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote:
> For hard to type file names, I have a line in my .inputrc:
> 
> Control-o: menu-complete
> 
> Then you can press ctrl-o repeatedly to cycle through file names. If you
> can type the beginning of the name, it cycles through only the names
> that start with whatever you typed. I have found it very useful for some
> Japanese file names.

You might want to map it to a different keystroke, as ctrl-o already
does something quite useful by default:  When calling up a command from
history, ctrl-o executes it and loads the next command in your history
into the prompt.

e.g., If, at some point in your command history, you did a 'cd' followed
by 'ls', you could go back in the history to the 'cd', press ctrl-o, and
it would execute the 'cd', then put 'ls' on the command line, ready for
you to execute it by just hitting enter (or ctrl-o again, if you want to
continue replaying the sequence).

It's obviously not that great when you're replaying a sequence of
two-character commands, but when you're stepping through a series of
longer commands with lots of parameters from way back in the history, it
can be a huge convenience.

-- 
Dave Sherohman