Terminal autocomplete: cycle through suggestions
I had this on my Ubuntu setup and since I switched to Fedora I want to set it and I forgot how… The idea is simple :
I had this on my Ubuntu setup and since I switched to Fedora I want to set it and I forgot how… The idea is simple :
This question is quite similar to this one, but I can’t understand the solution. I also know this tutorial, but still I am unable to understand what I am doing wrong.
I use ubuntu 11.04.
In bash is there any way to expand a relative path into an absolute path, perhaps with tab completion?
How can I configure Bash, Zsh or Tmux to complete the last matching identifier on the screen? Consider this common scenario:
In bash, suppose I have these commands:
I already asked this question on stackoveflow, but received no answer and very few views. I thought I would post here as there should be more bash users and someone might have already stumbled upon this problem. According to SO Meta, it should be ok to do so as long as I link to the cross-website post. Tell me if I’m wrong though, and I’ll just delete this question.
After installing new software, an already opened terminal with zsh won’t know about the new commands and cannot generate auto-complete for those. Apparently opening a new terminal fix the problem, but can the index (or whatever you call it) be rebuilt so that auto-complete will work on the old terminal?
In Fish when you start typing, autocompletion automatically shows the first autocompleted guess on the line itself.
In bash, it’s easy enough to set up customized completion of command arguments using the complete built-in. For example, for a hypothetical command with a synopsis of