Legend, Carl! That does the trick for me (both solutions work for me - I've used the .bashrc line for a permanent setting)! I'm taking the liberty of posting your reply to debian-user - I suspect there could be others who would appreciate this pointer.
Thanks again Zen --- FYI, below... On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 12:09, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Any answers to this one? > > On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 12:35, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > Does anyone know how I can make SHIFT+TAB do the same thing in my bash > > shell as TAB does (ie. tab-complete)? > > > > The reason this would be very useful: Java naming conventions: > > > > In Java, classes have each word capitalized. Eg: > > MyFunctionalProceduralObjectBasedDoItAll.class > > > > So, when I go to compile a java class, or similar, and I have similarly > > named classes, I use tab-completion a lot. I type a few chars, hit tab, > > then type the next char. That next char is often a capital letter, and I > > often hit the TAB key before I've taken my little finger off the SHIFT > > (for typing the next letter of the class I'm trying to compile). > > > > This results in SHIFT+TAB and a terminal bell from bash, rather than > > completion. > > > > It would save me many many keystrokes a day if SHIFT-TAB effectively > > sent a TAB when in bash. On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 13:41, Carl Mummert wrote: I assume you are having the problem under X-windows. Try running: xmodmap -e 'keycode 0x17 = Tab Tab' from a command prompt. Then run an Xterm (not aterm, rxvt, etc. Just xterm) and try it. On may machine, shift-tab causes bash to complete in the xterm after running .Xmodmap file. For some reason the shift-tab thing doesn't work in aterm. I can't tell you why, but I'm sure it has to do with character translation. If you do get it working, you may want to post a summary to debian-user with your solution; this email didnt go to the list. -- Carl Addendum to previous message: Read the bash manpage, especially the bind builtin and the complete readline command. In rxvt / aterm, add the following line to your .bachrc to make shift-tab complete: bind '"\e[Z": complete' I got the key sequence by typing 'cat > o' then pressing shift-tab once, then control-d, then 'od -ax o' -- Carl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
