Hi,
Documents starts with a capital D. Type ~/Doc <tab>.
Tab completion is case sensitive.
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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?
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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. Thanks so long.
Warm regards,
Brandt Steenkamp
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