Re: single tab for completions in bash

[kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 2010-09-17 17:50 +0200, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
>
>> say I have two files junk1, junk2.
>>
>> % ls
>> junk1  junk2
>>
>> In zsh, If I do
>> % ls j<tab>
>>
>> it becomes
>>
>> % ls junk
>>
>> another tab shows the list of completions
>>
>> % ls junk
>> junk1  junk2
>
> And further tabs cycle through the list of possible completions.

yeah! zsh has quite cool stuff like that.

>> However in bash, it takes 3 tabs to get the list of completions
>>
>> $ ls j<tab><tab><tab>
>> junk1 junk2
>>
>> Is there any option that can be changed in bash, so that I can get the
>> completions like zsh?
>
> $ echo "set show-all-if-ambiguous on" >> ~/.inputrc
>
> will show the completions immediately, saving a keystroke.  However, I
> don't know a way how to cycle through the list of completions.
>

This is great! Just what I am looking for.

raju