Not sure where to post this question so please allow me to try it here...

I setup a CentOS 7 development machine to attempt to compile a source package. Basic install from the Everything DVD - packages for development and the default Gnome 3 desktop. Having no luck with my build project I obtained an rpm from another source and tried to install it thusly

1 - downloaded the .rpm (gnome-commander-1.6.2-1.el7.nux.x86_64.rpm) to the ~/Download dirctory
2 - opened a terminal
3 - cd to ~/Download
4 - su
5 - yum install g [TAB]

I would have expected tab completion to fill in the complete name of the package as I was in the same directory as the package file and there were no other files present. I continued typing

gn [TAB] nothing
gno [TAB] nothing
gnom [TAB] filled in to gnome-
gnome-c [TAB] filled in to gnome-co
gnome-com [TAB] filled in to gnome-comm
gnome-comma [TAB] filled in the complete file name gnome-commander-1.6.2-1.el7.nux.x86_64.rpm

I have used tab completion on CentOS 7 with the Mate destkop, CentOS 6 with Gnome 2, various buntu's, Fedora's, early Red Hat's. I have never seen this sort of behavior.

Granted if I have several similarly named files in the same directory I will have to prompt tab completion along so it can differentiate the files. But with only ONE file in the directory? Is this a Gnome 3 thing?

TIA,

Ken

I don't use CentOS, but seeing as you have yet to get a reply and it's been more than a day since you posted, I figured I'd offer a suggestion.

It's unlikely caused by GNOME 3 itself. I have no problems with completion on my Debian machine.

What shell are you using? Debian has a "bash-completion" package for this purpose with bash, perhaps CentOS has something similar and it has not been installed? Check your shell, your installed packages and the repositories.

Thanks goumba,

Yes, I am using bash. I did notice when I accidentally pressed [Enter] while displaying "#yum install gnome-" the system displayed a list of all sorts of stuff beginning with "gnome-" It seemed that tab completion was reading everything in root's path or the RPM database or yum package list or something other than the files in the pwd.

The virtual machine in question was a "development" workstation with all sorts of compilers, tools and the kitchen sink installed. I need to build a Gnome 3 "civilian" test VM. I will see what tab completion does on that machine and update the thread.

Thanks again,

Ken

That may be how CentOS is configured. Check out /usr/share/bash_completion/bash_completion, which should be a shell script which sets up how completion is done, what order, etc.

See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5...ompletion-work for more information on how completion works (if you feel like getting into it). The files in your home directory may be the last thing the completion mechanism is set to look at.

Thanks again goumba,

I just built a new CentOS 7 Gnome 3 virtual machine to test a new gnome-commander package from nux. Tab completion is functioning in the same strange way. I have gotten gnome-commander 1.6.2 to install and run which is GREAT. Now I need to go back to CentOS 7 Mate which I actually use and get g-c working there. I will compare the completion scripts from both environments and see what I can determine. Not exactly top priority at the moment but I appreciate the info and I am curious.

Ken