autocomplete

figadiablo · 03-13-2002, 02:26 AM

How do I enable autocomplete in Linux?
I am running Red Hat 7.2, about the only thing I dont like is that the auto complete thing (hitting esc twice after typing a few letters and the word appears) is not working. It worked in version 7.1, don't know what happened here.
Any ideas?

acid_kewpie · 03-13-2002, 02:49 AM

hmm, i never even knew two escapes did anything... any idea where that originates from?

just use the tab key instead.

neo77777 · 03-13-2002, 08:16 AM

Esc thing works in csh, tab is for bash.

Mik · 03-13-2002, 08:43 AM

The tab is used to autocomplete commands. But pressing esc two times is used for completing file names in the current directory. I use it both for ksh and bash so I don't think it's csh specific.
If I type ls ab<esc><esc> then it will complete the command to be ls abcd if there is a file called abcd in the current directory.

acid_kewpie · 03-13-2002, 09:00 AM

not in bash it doesn't, seems to have *exactly* the same functionality as tab

Mik · 03-13-2002, 10:13 AM

Well that's what I was trying to say. Pressing the esc key twice is not the same as using the tab key.
I think the tab key is bash specific though because it doesn't work on ksh in linux or unix.

figadiablo · 03-13-2002, 04:19 PM

hey tahnks everybody, the tab works. Hehe newbie mistake

. its weird cause I used to use the esc key for this...