Thanks for the replies. After searching for the bash completion in the web i have found the following link
http://www.debian-administration.org/article/An_introduction_to_bash_completion_part_2 It has tutorial how to deal with bash completion. Some modifications to the tutorial showed the same results what I was expecting. -- Kishore On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan < [email protected]> wrote: > Greetings, > > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Arun Khan <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Kishore Reddy > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I would like to develop an Intellisense feature for the existing linux > >> command line interface. (it's not the command auto complete) > >> > >> For example: > >> when you type '*ls -'* at the prompt, you will get a drop down menu with > all > >> available options like *l, a, c, s* etc along with the short > descriptions. > >> > > > > Most commands (posix compliant) have the "--help" which shows the > > options with a small explaination for each. > > Specific to your example "ls --help" shows the comon options of ls. > > > > I think the OP specifically pointed out that. I guess the OP has in > mind something like the typical dropdowns that appear in yahoo/gmail > when you type in the "To" field. > > As for me, I am not into development nowadays, so sorry. > > But for dropdowns and all that fancy things you may look at ncurses > library. > > Regards, > > Rajagopal > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
