For some reason, bash did not want to do the tab completion thing. zhs is working fine though. I will set it back to bash, just to make sure.
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 13 May 2013, at 1:40 AM, "Chris Gilland" <clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Why would you have used zhs? Call me weird for asking, but... isn't it set > to bash by default? > > Chris. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brandt" <brandt.steenk...@gmail.com> > To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2013 3:30 PM > Subject: Re: Terminal and tab completion > > > 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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