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Old 11-18-2008, 09:36 PM   #1
MikeOfAustin
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Dumb question about terminal... (solved)


used to, when I would type something like

"sudo apt-get install la " (then hit tab a couple time fast)

it would ask me if I wanted to display x options... (meaning it would list every option after the "la" (like "laptop-mode-tools").

But it doesn't do that anymore. Incidentally, it started doing this after I created a new user, and used that new user exclusively.

How can I get it back to smart mode???

UPDATE: fixed.. I just googled on a whim.."smart terminal".

(you have to uncomment some stuff in /etc/etc/bash.bash.rc

Last edited by MikeOfAustin; 11-18-2008 at 10:01 PM.
 
Old 11-19-2008, 03:22 PM   #2
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it's all bash shennanigans, not something that seems to get much interest outside of debian / ubuntu.
 
  


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