On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 1:36 PM, DennisW <dennistwilliam...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Feb 11, 11:33 am, Peng Yu <pengyu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: >> > On 2/11/10 11:05 AM, Peng Yu wrote: >> >> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: >> >>> On 2/11/10 10:54 AM, Peng Yu wrote: >> >>>> Suppose I file 'a1.txt' and 'a2.txt' in my current directory. When I >> >>>> type 'cat a' then TAB, it will show me 'a1.txt' and 'a2.txt'. If I >> >>>> type TAB repeatedly, it will always show me the same thing. >> >> >>>> However, a better response might be >> >>>> 1. complete the command to 'cat a1.txt' at the 2nd TAB, >> >>>> 2. complete the command to 'cat a2.txt' at the 3rd TAB, >> >>>> 3. return to the original 'cat a' at the 4th TAB, >> >>>> 4. complete the command to 'cat a1.txt' again at the 5th TAB. >> >> >>>> I'm wondering if there is a way to configure bash this way. >> >> >>> bind 'TAB:menu-complete' >> >> >> This is helpful. But it is not exactly what I'm looking for. I still >> >> want to show 'a1.txt' and 'a2.txt' at the 1st TAB. The above bind >> >> command gives me 'cat a1.txt' directly at the 1st TAB. >> >> > Look at the 'show-all-if-ambiguous' option. The combination may do what >> > you want. >> >> set show-all-if-ambiguous On >> bind 'TAB:menu-complete' >> >> I typed in the above two commands. It seems that command completion is >> the same as if I only typed in the second command. Do you know why? > > The first command should be: > > bind 'set show-all-if-ambiguous On'
bind 'set show-all-if-ambiguous On' bind 'TAB:menu-complete' I typed the above commands in the command line, but I still don't see the print out of all matches. Would you please let me know how to debug what is wrong?
