>It has tutorial how to deal with bash completion. >Some modifications to the tutorial showed the same results what I was expecting
HI Kishore, I too have an idea similar to this in which I have to use Dropdown box and readline. So,Can you give suggestions for how to create the dropdown box in gnome terminal. With regards, Kannan. R. P, Blog @: http://kannan4k.wordpress.com/ On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Kishore Reddy <[email protected] > wrote: > Thanks for the replies. After searching for the bash completion in the web > i > have found the following link > > > http://www.debian-administration.org/article/An_introduction_to_bash_completion_part_2 > > It has tutorial how to deal with bash completion. Some modifications to the > tutorial showed the same results what I was expecting. > > -- > Kishore > > > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Greetings, > > > > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Arun Khan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Kishore Reddy > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> I would like to develop an Intellisense feature for the existing linux > > >> command line interface. (it's not the command auto complete) > > >> > > >> For example: > > >> when you type '*ls -'* at the prompt, you will get a drop down menu > with > > all > > >> available options like *l, a, c, s* etc along with the short > > descriptions. > > >> > > > > > > Most commands (posix compliant) have the "--help" which shows the > > > options with a small explaination for each. > > > Specific to your example "ls --help" shows the comon options of ls. > > > > > > > I think the OP specifically pointed out that. I guess the OP has in > > mind something like the typical dropdowns that appear in yahoo/gmail > > when you type in the "To" field. > > > > As for me, I am not into development nowadays, so sorry. > > > > But for dropdowns and all that fancy things you may look at ncurses > > library. > > > > Regards, > > > > Rajagopal > > _______________________________________________ > > ILUGC Mailing List: > > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > > > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
