Re: Tab Tab program/command line editing
Well, for me, I cannot live without this feature.
On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 01:43:35PM +1000, Matthew Dalton wrote:
> It's not a bug, its a feature.
>
> It's called command completion. The (bash) shell is trying to help you
> out by finishing off your typing for you.
>
> If you don't like it, use a different shell. Zsh has command completion
> as well, but pressing <tab><tab> does nothing. I think the equivalent
> for zsh is ctrl-d. I don't know about any of the other shells.
>
> Matthew
>
> ktb wrote:
> >
> > When I tried 'exim <tab><tab>' the output listed 156 files in my home
> > directory. This is different than the output that you got. Am I
> > experiencing a bug? I'm using Bash for the shell. The Bash man page is
> > large and I may have missed a reference to this <tab><tab> function but
> > I didn't see anything listed under "commands" or "list" that pertained
> > to <tab><tab>. I'll keep looking.
> > Thanks,
> > kent
> >
> > Steve Lamb wrote:
> > >
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> > > On Mon, 05 Jul 1999 22:14:35 -0500, ktb wrote:
> > >
> > > >Anyone know the name of this program?
> > >
> > > The shell, IIRC. Kent, have you tried something like this?
> > > exim<tab><tab> yields, for example:
> > >
> > > {morpheus@teleute:~} exim
> > > exim exim_dumpdb exim_lock eximconfig
> > > exim_dbmbuild exim_fixdb exim_tidydb eximstats
> > > - --
> > > Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your
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