Re: Turn off bash completion?

2008-08-28 Thread Mike McCarty
James Wilkinson wrote: I wrote: into ~/.inputrc , and log in again, completion should be disabled. You'll also have disabled the rest of the settings in /etc/inputrc: you might like to either copy them across, or try putting $include /etc/inputrc into ~/.inputrc . Mike McCarty replied: Hmm,

Re: Turn off bash completion?

2008-08-27 Thread Mike McCarty
Frank Cox wrote: On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:51:55 -0500 Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because I find that I'm frequently hitting TAB when intending to use CAPS-LOCK and getting extraneous stuff in my command line which I then have to edit back out. Have you considered re-arranging your

Re: Turn off bash completion?

2008-08-27 Thread Todd Zullinger
Mike McCarty wrote: Hmm, created ~/.inputrc $ cat ~/.inputrc include /etc/inputrc I believe you should have '$include /etc/inputrc', and not 'include /etc/inputrc'. HOWEVER, so is I. IOW, I can no longer type the letter i in either upper or lower case. I can, however, type in a tab.

Re: Turn off bash completion?

2008-08-27 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike McCarty wrote: snip to get a login shell, and indeed completion is turned off. HOWEVER, so is I. IOW, I can no longer type the letter i in either upper or lower case. I can, however, type in a tab. Hmm... i have used same .bashrc from years

Re: Turn off bash completion?

2008-08-27 Thread James Wilkinson
I wrote: into ~/.inputrc , and log in again, completion should be disabled. You'll also have disabled the rest of the settings in /etc/inputrc: you might like to either copy them across, or try putting $include /etc/inputrc into ~/.inputrc . Mike McCarty replied: Hmm, created ~/.inputrc

Re: Turn off bash completion?

2008-08-27 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Wilkinson wrote: snip If I use your .inputrc, then lower-case i stops working for me, too. However, if I put the $ into the $include command, then the i key works properly. '$' defines a *string variable* and must be present. man bash -

Re: Turn off bash completion?

2008-08-27 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Wilkinson wrote: snip If I use your .inputrc, then lower-case i stops working for me, too. However, if I put the $ into the $include command, then the i key works properly. '$' defines a *string variable* and must be present. ** in

Re: Turn off bash completion?

2008-08-27 Thread James Wilkinson
I wrote: However, if I put the $ into the $include command, then the i key works properly. g wrote: '$' defines a *string variable* Not in this case, no. ~/.inputrc is not a shell script (at least in the conventional case of the term). and must be present. That’s what I was saying. **

Re: Turn off bash completion?

2008-08-27 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Wilkinson wrote: snip However, if I put the $ into the $include command, then the i key works properly. i read. '$' defines a *string variable* Not in this case, no. ~/.inputrc is not a shell script (at least in the conventional case

Turn off bash completion?

2008-08-26 Thread Mike McCarty
I'd like to disable the bash completion feature. I've read the info bash stuff, and I see lots of ways to specify what happens after or during completion, but I didn't see (overlooked?) how to turn it off. Any bash gurus out there know how to disable it entirely? I don't want to turn off line