On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Peter Toft <p...@linuxbog.dk> wrote:
> Hi all > > I have been using tcsh for a long time on Red Hat Linux boxes, and > bash on other UNIX-boxes. One thing I really love with tcsh is the way > I can swiftly operate using the <TAB> to do auto-complete, when having > a deep directory hierarchy. I have that... > > With bash I surely could use your skills to improve my usage of bash > (read; allow me to ditch tcsh fully). > > I have an annoying bash-problem on Red Hat Linux 5.x. If I e.g. try to move > to a subdirectory of another directory (e.g. $HOME), where the tab-expand > works poorly; > > Assume $HOME=/home/pto > > "cd $HOME<TAB>" is expanded to "cd /home/pto " (without the quotes). > I get $HOME expanded - quite ok - but I get an annoying space efter the > path. > I will never like that space, I strongly prefer if I could get > "cd $HOME<TAB>" expanded to "cd /home/pto/" (without the quotes) so I could > continue to press <TAB> and see the allowed sub-directories - much faster > for me. > > I have also understood I can do > $ complete -o nospace cd > to change the mode of operation, but this seems to disable the > auto-complete > function when doing cd $VARIABLE<TAB>. > > I am guestimating, that you have discussed this in February > (cf. http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/user/227574) > but the February archive seems to be lost; > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-02/msg00274.html > so I cannot get the details of it. > > That cited link is suggesting; "ESC ctrl-e gets rid of the > backslash, and if you want to keep the $VAR as $VAR, backspace over > the terminal space and continue. Or you can ESC ctrl-e again, and > convert the $VAR to its value, so you won't need to repeat the single > ESC ctrl-e for each further <tab>." > which IMHO is not really what I want. > > Any hints on this? Can I set the mode of operation as I like where the > infamous space is replaced by a slash when doing "cd ... <TAB>"? > > Best > > -- > Peter Toft, PhD > http://petertoft.dk > > That also annoys me much. Try like this: $ complete -o default -o nospace -d cd $ cd $VAR/<TAB> -- Clark J. Wang
