[plug] Bash tab completion

[Bernard Blackham]

On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 09:30:30PM +0800, Leon Brooks wrote:
> On Saturday 13 April 2002 07:50 pm, Ryan wrote:
> > Does someone know if it is possible to make the BASH tab completion feature
> > act like VIM and rotate through ambiguous completions rather than listing
> > them?
> 
> AFAIK, no, but you *can* make BASH auto-complete on an obscenely large number 
> of things (such as ssh hosts, man page names, NFS shares), contextually:

One of the coolest features I love about zsh's autocompletion (bash
probably does it too), is the ability to autocomplete across ssh for
scp - if you have passwordless ssh'ing set up, a tab will get you a
list of directories or files on a remote server. Very handy!

Bernard.

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