[H-GEN] TAB command completion

Harry Phillips harry at tux.com.au
Tue Dec 28 17:46:22 EST 2004


James C. McPherson wrote:
>> I have recently switched to Ubuntu (a Debian based distro) from Mandrake.
>> One of the things I really miss is the single Tab command completion. 
> 
> ... in my choice of shell....

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention it was bash.

> 
> What I'm missing here is an appreciation that it's not
> the "distribution" which is the difference, it's the
> defaults which the distribution has made to your shell
> default settings.

That makes no sense. A distro has different defaults but it's not the 
distro it's the differences?

> You know, like you'd find in /etc/bashrc or /etc/profile...
> 

Two things:
1. I no longer had Mandrakes bashrc or profile files/directorys so I 
could not compare them to Ubuntu's, that's why I asked.

Two minutes after I sent the message I realised what I should have got 
Google to filter out. When I did that the first hit I found what I was 
looking for instead of a million and 3 simply describing the default 
that I wanted to change.

2. As I have already indicated, it was not in either of those 
files/directory's, the behaviour I wanted to change is set in /etc/inputrc.

-- 
Regards,
Harry Phillips




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