[plug] enabling advanced bash tab completion

Phil Steege psteege at earthlink.net
Tue Dec 3 09:10:26 WST 2002


On redhat systems we do not have a /etc/bash.bashrc file or
/etc/bash_completion.
Is it just a matter of creating those files for the bash completion to
work under redhat as well ?



On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 01:06, Craig Ringer wrote:
> ryan at is.as.geeky.as wrote:
> > I was just stuffing around as I tend to do and noticed that the true
> > power of bash completion that I had known existed by looking at
> > /etc/bash_completion but could never get working except for basic
> > filename completion, was due to 3 comments in /etc/bash.bashrc (or you
> > can just execute the /etc/bash_completion script.  It is sooooo obvious
> > now :P
> 
> Wow ;
> ssh www.pos\t
> 
> :-)
> 
> ever tried to type "www.postnewspapers.com.au" many times in succession, 
> accurately? don't.
> 
> -- 
> Craig Ringer
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> 	-- if it ain't broke, add features 'till it is. (or:)
> 	while (! broken) { features ++ ; broken = isBroken(features) }
> 
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