Hello,
The tab completions in the terminal are controlled by the shell being used. I
believe Catalina is using an older bash, and that new accounts created with Big
Sir and newer use zsh because of some licensing issues with the bash shell.
Zsh can get quite complicated in configuring completions, but of course it will
never match TOPS-20 command line where the "shell" (in quotes) communicated
with command line applications and knew every switch and had a short
description of every switch.
But I have digressed, pressing tab with either zsh or bash using default Mac
settings will complete to aa command in the path for arg0 and will complete to
a filename in additional arguments. If there are multiple matches, I can't
remember if it just completes to where the multiple versions diverge and then
beeps repeatedly as additional tabs are pressed, or if additional tabs will
rotate through the various services. Certainly you should be able to grab your
linux shell configurations and use them on the Mac with little changes, like
library paths and paths.
Jonathan
Best wishes,
Jonathan Cohn
> On Jun 26, 2022, at 20:35, 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries
> <[email protected]> wrote:
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>
>
>> On 26 Jun, 2022, at 20:03, Karen Lewellen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Perhaps I should ask this differently.
>> Can one move from the apple desktop into terminal using voiceover and work
>> equally as well?
>> could I work in programs in the terminal using voiceover, just as I can use
>> it with programs in the main desktop?
> Yes, the terminal is treated as just another application so far as VoiceOver
> is concerned.
>> I am not even sure what tab completion means in general, I do not personally
>> use the tab key much outside of word processing.
> It’s a feature of the shell that completes partially typed commands and file
> names. For example, if you had a directory named “documents” and you typed
> “do”, then pressed the tab key, it would complete the rest of the name -
> assuming that there are no other names beginning with “do”. Typically,
> pressing the tab key twice gives you a list of names that match.
>
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