Questions tagged [tab-completion]
Tab completion is a user interface enhancement for shells and other command line programs. Typing the first few characters of a command (or argument) and pressing the Tab key results in the rest of the word being automatically completed by the program.
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How can I complete individual command line phrases / do partial completion with fzf?
With fzf I can press CTRL-R to search my command history but it completes the whole command. What I'd like is to just complete the current argument, the next phrase before the next space. Can this be ...
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How can I turn off completion cycling in zsh?
How do I prevent ZSH cycling through matching completions but instead just presenting a list of remaining possibilities in a list?
On my more recent OS installations I've started getting ZSH cycling ...
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Bash: always display file possibilities on tab-complete
When I use tab for filename completion and there are more than ~100 matches, it displays something like "Display all 403 possibilities? (y or n)". This gets annoying when I do it many times a day. Is ...
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urxvt - tab expand environment variables
I am new to urxvt (moved from gnome-terminal -> Ubuntu 12.04 refugee). I am used to having environment variables expand in gnome-terminal by default
Suppose that I have an environment variable "...
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zsh completion ( compctl ) does not trig for command names containing dashes
I've used zsh compctl since forever (late 90s or early 00s) but strangly never run into this before.
I realized today when I intended to make some compctl config for update-alternatives that my ...
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Add strings to zsh tab completion for all commands and arguments
I want to add the keywords foo and bar to be added to the auto completion results for any command or argument.
eg:
cd <TAB> should give foo and bar in the suggestions in addition to the ...
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Completion stops working in /root directory
If I am in a root terminal su, then everything is fine: completion is OK everywhere.
The problem arises if, as a normal user, I try to use sudo to reach the /root/ directory , for instance, if I want ...
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Access Finder's "Open With" menu from the commandline (for tab completion)
On Mac OS X, I know one can open a file from the commandline with its default application with open, and with other applications with open -a <application name>. Thus,
open movie.avi
open -a ...
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PhpStorm function name suggestion with variables
How to make PHPStorm code completion to suggest function name with variables, not only it's name?
For example, I have next function:
function sample1($understandable_variable_name1, &$...
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Tab-completion when running a python3 script
In Ubuntu, I'd like to be able to use tab-completion when running python. For example, if I wanted to use vim to edit a file 'myscript.py3', I'd write 'vim my' and pressing tab would complete the ...
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Better Tab-Tab experience for file-completion if directory is big (Bash)
In ~/tmp/ I store some files while working on the command line.
❯ ls ~/tmp/ [TAB-TAB]
Display all 119 possibilities? (y or n)
Usualy I want to work on a file which has recent ctime.
Is there a way ...
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How do I get zsh tab completion to "vi **/foo<TAB>" to match and complete the first file matching "foo*" anywhere under the current directory?
How do I get zsh tab completion to cat **/foo<TAB> to match and complete the first file matching foo* in any subdirectory under the current directory?
For example, do this while inside a fresh ...
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Is it possible in bash to complete the middle of a word?
I have a simple bash completion script for my custom git branch searcher.
#/usr/bin/env bash
_branch_completions()
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local word="${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}";
if [ ! -z "$word" ]
then
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Why would bash refuse to be case-insensitive?
I am working on a server where I seem to be unable to set bash to be case insensitive. I have the shell set to,
set completion-ignore-case on
But this does not seem to be working. I am working over ...
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How can I make zsh tab completion fix capitalization errors for directories and files?
I switched to zsh completely on a previous arch install and I LOVED it mainly because arch is one of the distros that capitalizes your Documents, Downloads, Music and such directories in your ~ ...
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How do I resolve a keybinding conflict with coc for vim?
Just as a preface, I'm not a programmer, but I've written a bit of shell to automate things.
This is on MacOS Mojave, but it shouldn't make too big of a difference since neovim's configs should carry ...
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zsh completion will not work in emacs shell
I'm learning about the more powerful tab-completion and expansion capabilities of zsh, and they don't seem to work when I run zsh under emacs with M-x shell:
cat $PATH<TAB> expands the tab ...
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Git not autocompleting with the switch command
I'm trying to switch my behaivour to use switch and restore instead of checkout, but I'm running into a huge problem when trying to use git switch to switch branches. My company has a naming ...
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How can I get bash to perform tab-completion for my aliases?
I have a bunch of bash completion scripts set up (mostly using bash-it and some manually setup).
I also have a bunch of aliases setup for common tasks like gco for git checkout. Right now I can ...
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How to minimize typing when frequently changing directories?
What are some good Linux commands to make switching between different directories on the command line easier?
I often have to switch between different directories with long names, e.g.
cd foo/20100801-...
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Understanding zsh blobing, alias, and tab completion
I am new to zsh and recently moved on from csh, due to obvious reasons.
Oddly enough, its taking me slightly longer than I expected to port a lot of aliases which I use extensively. Here's one of ...
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Setting Environment variable for bash/zsh completion
I am using gnu pass with bash/zsh completion. This means when I type pass a[TAB] the shell suggests which passwords I have available starting with a.
I have two gnu-pass directories, when I want to ...
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Add shell (bash/zsh) tab completion to custom command by running existing completion with arguments
In our code base we have a few convenience executables that are automatically loaded to the environment for anyone cloning the code (using direnv).
This is a general question, but for the purpose of ...
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How to use tab for text auto complete system wide?
Mac OS suggests completions of some text in some instances. A particular example would be when writing an email. The default way to choose the suggested text is to use the downward arrow to highlight ...
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tmux completion (not shell completion)
Is there any way to do completion of arbitrary text from your tmux session (e.g. output from previous commands)? Something similar to hippie-expand in emacs or Any word completion in vim? Note that I'...
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Run command on tab completion in zsh
I'm trying to set up a zsh function that will take me back to the top level git directory with an optional argument to move relative to that directory. I've currently got this which works:
alias ...
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Disable bash completion of asterisk when ambiguos
My bash is autocompleting filenames in an unexpected way. I have a directory with 2 files:
$ ls
ssh-8ZwoymYvfDSu ssh-ha7JCIFmjUKR
When entering some prefix of the name and pressing <tab>, bash ...
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Tab doesn't expand the path when using $_ to access the previously typed path
Consider the following scenario:
I've used ls to list the contents of a directory, and I've used Tab to find the right directory, so I don't know the full path. And it's a potentially long path, so I ...
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How do I make bash completion behave like this?
I’m not sure if what I’m asking is possible, but what I would like bash to do on tab presses is this:
On the first tab press, expand a common prefix (skip/beep and do nothing, I don’t really mind, if ...
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zsh: Select menu auto-completion with single Enter/Return press
Once finding the auto-completion I want to select from the completions menu, I currently need to hit <Enter> twice - once to add the selection to the terminal, and once to execute the command.
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Tab completion for .bat files in Git-for-Windows Bash
Git for Windows installs "Git Bash," a bash shell that works in Windows, which is very nice. It's based on MinTTY, I believe.
As well as bash shell scripts, it can also execute Windows batch (.bat) ...
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Tab completion closes SSH connection
I am using SSH connection to log into my Raspberry Pi. I used tab completion over SSH before and that worked perfectly. But now I am getting the "connection closed" message whenever I try to use tab ...
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Bash filename tab completion
I have noticed sometimes that tab completion is helpfully filtered in bash. I am a java programmer and often use the java and javac commands in the terminal for quick or remote tasks.
Say I have the ...
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Enable all defined bash completion after a custom command
I have a custom script called oEd which basically runs any bash command following it and opens the output in my favorite Editor.
Is it possible to enable all defined bash completion (supported by my ...
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Bash auto-completion of variables adds additional white space at the end
When I perform an auto-completion of a bash variable, an additional whitespace character is added at the end.
So this:
$FO[TAB]
Becomes this:
$FOO" "
I added the quotes in order to denote the ...
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How to Expand Abbreviations Inline in Fish Shell?
I'm trying to save some time in Fish Shell by setting an abbreviation (nu) to expand to the string:
my-username@my-ip-address:/home/my-username
What I'm hoping to achieve is to enter:
scp some-file ...
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Command-T for shell
I'm looking for a shell extension that allows me to do filename completion similarly to Command-T.
Command-T a feature in TextMate and a plugin for Vim that allows you to select filenames by typing ...
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How can I get bash to perform case insensitive tab-completion for my aliases and functions?
I have an alias like this:
alias sshUntrusted='ssh -X -C -c blowfish-cbc,arcfour'
But when I type
$ sshun
followed by Tab, Bash does not complete the alias.
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TAB completion with .bash_history
I usually use PageUp/PageDown to search through .bash_history given a prefix.
However, I regularly catch me pressing TAB multiple times before realizing that I need to use PageUp/PageDown in this ...
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Why does a value '-' (hyphen) in "tag-order" style prevent matching of the "executables" tag even if that tag is explicitly specified?
With the code below, everything works as expected:
When I write c and hit the TAB key, I get the appropriate completions in correct order.
When I write ./ and hit the TAB key, I get the ...
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How to customize the look of currently selected(highlighted) completion in zsh?
Main question
I would like to add powerline characters at the start and at the end of the selected completion, like this:
Started the completion menu by inserting a c and pressing the TAB key.
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Make bash's tab-completion case-insensitive [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Case insensitive tab completion in Bash
Is there any way to make the tab-completion in bash case-insensitive? For instance, if I have a file called Hello.txt and try to tab-...
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PhpStorm 2017 autopopup completion not working outside <> symbols
If I type < symbol and then continue typing, autopopup completion works just as intended:
But outside of <> tags(either html or php - <a></a> or <?php ?>, for example) ...
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Bash Autocomplete Subdirectory for Custom Command
I have tried for hours to get this working and feel like I've not come anywhere close.
I am trying to shorten our workflow by tab-completing directory names from the Mac OS X Terminal.
We have an ...
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How do I abort building the list for tab completion without losing the command?
some_very_long_command_line --arg1 --arg2=555 --arg4 ... ... ... && <now Tab pressed>
(Now it works. I want to cancel before the following message)
Display all 6936 possibilities? (y or ...
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Bash partial glob expansion
I have a question similar to this one, but different: I want bash to use a glob expansion in auto-completion, if possible. For example, I would like
$ ls *2.<TAB>
To give me:
$ ls mydoc2.
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Tab completion for command arguments fail in Cygwin due to `.exe` extension
Is there a configuration option in Cygwin so that when Bash completes the name of the command, the filename’s .exe suffix is ignored (not included)?
Explanation of the problem
When using tab ...
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zsh completion list-colors - partial colouring issue
Inspired by https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23152157/how-does-the-zsh-list-colors-syntax-work I wanted to have a different colour for the per-match descriptions in the menu list, but I can't get ...
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Is it possible to have tab completion of drop-down lists in web pages in Firefox?
Does anyone know of a Firefox plugin that would enable tab-completion (or some other key sequence like Alt-L) of items in drop-down lists in web forms?
e.g.
ou<TAB>in<TAB>s<TAB>
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Branch names not showing in Mercurial's tab completion
I have a development machine running mercurial 1.6.3. Tab completion in bash works great for completing commands, tags and branch names. I've set up a new machine with the same mercurial version (both ...
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