Hi, The issue has been sorted. Just changed the shell from bash to I think zhs.
The last time I used a text based system was back in 93 or so with MS-DOS.. 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 12 May 2013, at 8:53 PM, Georgina Joyce <g...@gena-j.me.uk> wrote: > Hello, > > Can we just go back to basics and check that we understand the situation > right. > > You are going to your applications cmd + shift + a. > > You are navigating to the utilities folder. > > You are selecting terminal? > > Then attempting tab completion? > > If you are in agreement with the above. I'm sure the terminal is giving a > response. Whether it's an error tone or a message of some description. How > does the terminal respond? > > Have you hacked your .bashrc or .bash_prifiles? > > Is there more than one account on that machine? If so, do the other accounts > behave the same? > > Gena > > On 12 May 2013, at 09:09, Brandt <brandt.steenk...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> There are no other directories starting with Doc, and I am not always in my >> home directory. >> >> 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 10:58 PM, Georgina Joyce <g...@gena-j.me.uk> wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> What's it's response? Do you have another directory starting with Doc? Why >>> are you using the home identifier? Are you not at your home route? >>> >>> Gena >>> >>> >>> On 11/05/2013 20:04, Brandt wrote: >>>> 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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