<p dir="ltr">Hmm. Bash has had tab completion for 10 years. Is it not on by default in opensuse?</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 23, 2013 10:15 PM, "Narahari 'n' Savitha" <<a href="mailto:savithari@gmail.com">savithari@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Tim:<div><br></div><div>Dont decry cmd.exe just because it is from M$FT. The tab completion feature of cmd is awesome and it is possible to do that in bash and I have done it in Arch Linux and it works. It is having issues in OpenSuse 11.4 hence I am trying to find out why it is behaving the way .inputrc vs /etc/inputrc.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Any ideas any one.</div><div><br></div><div>-Narahari</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 9:02 PM, Tim Watts <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tim@cliftonfarm.org" target="_blank">tim@cliftonfarm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>On Fri, 2013-08-23 at 19:00 -0400, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:<br>
> Friends:<br>
><br>
><br>
> OS: Open Suse 11.4 64 bit running inside Virtualbox.<br>
><br>
><br>
> I am following the link<br>
> <a href="http://superuser.com/questions/222390/making-bash-tab-completion-more-like-cmd-exe" target="_blank">http://superuser.com/questions/222390/making-bash-tab-completion-more-like-cmd-exe</a><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> to make bash behave like cmd.<br>
<br>
</div>why Why WHY would you want to DO that!!? That's like saying I want to<br>
make my Porche run like a '77 Granada. I just seems so cruel... :-)<br>
<br>
(sorry, don't actually have anything helpful to add)<br>
<div>><br>
> It worked well in Arch Linux.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Recently I felt like I want to put this in Open Suse 11.4 and put the<br>
> changes<br>
> to .inputrc and restarted the box (permissions of .inputrc = 755)<br>
><br>
><br>
> set completion-ignore-case on<br>
> # Ignore case when doing completion<br>
> set mark-directories on<br>
> # Completed dir names have a slash appended<br>
> set visible-stats on<br>
> # List ls -F for completion<br>
> "\C-i": menu-complete<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> The TAB completion DID NOT work.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Tried a lot but no luck.<br>
><br>
><br>
> I then moved the above section to /etc/inputrc and restarted the<br>
> machine<br>
><br>
><br>
> and VIOLA the tab completion works.<br>
><br>
><br>
> But in my office env, I dont have the luxury of modifying<br>
> the /etc/inputrc and only .inputrc will help.<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> Any ideas/suggestion would help.<br>
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