Hi, Still no luck. Any other ideas?
Warm regards, Brandt Steenkamp Sent from my macbook pro Contact me: Mobile/iMessage/WatsApp: +27781205013 Email: brandt.steenk...@gmail.com My ring to Skype: California, United States +(1)760-5140161 Extension 512 Cape Town, South Africa +(27)213-002317 Extension 161 Johannesburg, South Africa +(27)105-002316 Extension 170 Skype: Brandt.steenkamp007 SIP: 5500...@spokn.com Twitter: brandtsteenkamp On 11 May 2013, at 8:55 PM, Barry Hadder <bhad...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Documents starts with a capital D. Type ~/Doc <tab>. > > Tab completion is case sensitive. > > -- > Barry Hadder > bhad...@gmail.com > https://twitter.com/BarryHadder > UnitMaster > Available in the Mac app store. > > > On May 11, 2013, at 11:29 AM, Brandt <brandt.steenk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi there, > > In this case, typing something like "cd ~/doc" then hitting the tab key > should complete "cd ~/documents" This is not happening. How do I fix the > problem? > > Warm regards, > > Brandt Steenkamp > > Sent from my macbook pro > > Contact me: > > Mobile/iMessage/WatsApp: +27781205013 > > Email: brandt.steenk...@gmail.com > > My ring to Skype: > California, United States > +(1)760-5140161 > Extension 512 > Cape Town, South Africa > +(27)213-002317 > Extension 161 > Johannesburg, South Africa > +(27)105-002316 > Extension 170 > > Skype: Brandt.steenkamp007 > > SIP: 5500...@spokn.com > > Twitter: brandtsteenkamp > > On 11 May 2013, at 5:23 PM, "Jonathan C. Cohn" <jonc...@cox.net> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> This is rather a complicated question, since the terminal invokes a shell >> and the shell is then invoking other programs and there is no mechanism in >> UNIX to have those other programs tell the shell what arguments they will >> accept. On the other hand bash and zsh and tcsh shells will all do file name >> completion and can be programmed to do completion of of other commands >> unfortunately not many commands are so programmed. EMACS which has a toolkit >> called emacsspeak which can with some work be compiled to work on the >> Macintosh has a fairly extensive completion scheme. In places where emacs is >> using the command line at the bottom of the editor screen, and in some other >> areas where the text editor is not really working as a text editor, Emacs >> accepts a question mark to tell you what it expects and an tab (or perhaps >> an escape) to complete the current argument. Emacs took these structures >> from an 1080's Operating System called TOPS-20, and almost every completion >> scheme since has followed this example.T >> >> To get back to the shell, when you type the command "defaults" and then >> provide arguments such as read com.apple.textedit those arguments are first >> interpreted by the shell and then once and only once you hit the return key >> are passed to the defaults command. So what this means is that unless the >> shell knows all 10,000 programs available to it it can not provide complete >> completion code. >> Best wishes, >> >> Jonathan >> >> >> >> On May 11, 2013, at 6:20 AM, Brandt wrote: >> >>> Hi there folks, >>> >>> Is there anyway to have the tab key complete what you are typing into the >>> terminal? >>> >>> >>> If there is, please let me know. 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