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Autocomplete & menu selection

• Issue: how can we do give zsh behaviour to bash meaning TAB smart key.  Just try it out, and you'll like it .
• Features:

$ ls
automate  bin  Desktop  public_html  sauvegarde  travail  zsh-4.3.6-70.23.i586.rpm
$ cd d[TAB] --> 
$ cd Desktop
$ gen[TAB]
gencat         genhomedircon  genhostid      genisoimage    
$ gencat[TAB]
$ genhomedircon

• Solution:

If you got root privileges:

1. Install bash-completion:
   

   $ aptitude install bash-completion

2. Insert into ~/.bashrc:

​if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then
        . /etc/bash_completion
fi

3. Finally in ~/.inputrc:

set completion-ignore-case on
set show-all-if-ambiguous on
set show-all-if-unmodified on
"\C-i": menu-complete

Otherwise you need to (adjust MPP to your own path):

1. Manually install bash-completion (cf ce ticket)
2. Edit these lines from bash_completion. Don't forget to replace MPP (absolute path):

MPP=/home/toto/bash-completion
[ -n "$BASH_COMPLETION" ] || BASH_COMPLETION=$MPP/etc/bash_completion
[ -n "$BASH_COMPLETION_DIR" ] || BASH_COMPLETION_DIR=$MPP/etc/bash_completion.d
[ -n "$BASH_COMPLETION_COMPAT_DIR" ] || BASH_COMPLETION_COMPAT_DIR=$MPP/etc/bash_completion.d

3. Then in ~/.bashrc:

if [ -f /home/toto/bash-com​pletion/etc/bash_completion ]; then
   . /home/toto/bash-completion/etc/bash_completion
fi

4. Finally, insert in ~/.inputrc:

set completion-ignore-case on
set show-all-if-ambiguous on
set show-all-if-unmodified on
"\C-i": menu-complete

That's all folks!
 

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