[ale] Open Suse and the .inputrc issues

[Jim Kinney]

Hmm. Bash has had tab completion for 10 years. Is it not on by default in
opensuse?
On Aug 23, 2013 10:15 PM, "Narahari 'n' Savitha" <savithari at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Tim:
>
> Dont decry cmd.exe just because it is from M$FT.  The tab completion
> feature of cmd is awesome and it is possible to do that in bash and I have
> done it in Arch Linux and it works.  It is having issues in OpenSuse 11.4
> hence I am trying to find out why it is behaving the way .inputrc vs
> /etc/inputrc.
>
> Any ideas any one.
>
> -Narahari
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 9:02 PM, Tim Watts <tim at cliftonfarm.org> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2013-08-23 at 19:00 -0400, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:
>> > Friends:
>> >
>> >
>> > OS: Open Suse 11.4 64 bit running inside Virtualbox.
>> >
>> >
>> > I am following the link
>> >
>> http://superuser.com/questions/222390/making-bash-tab-completion-more-like-cmd-exe
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > to make bash behave like cmd.
>>
>> why Why WHY would you want to DO that!!?  That's like saying I want to
>> make my Porche run like a '77 Granada.  I just seems so cruel... :-)
>>
>> (sorry, don't actually have anything helpful to add)
>> >
>> > It worked well in Arch Linux.
>> >
>> >
>> > Recently I felt like I want to put this in Open Suse 11.4 and put the
>> > changes
>> > to .inputrc and restarted the box (permissions of .inputrc = 755)
>> >
>> >
>> >   set completion-ignore-case on
>> > # Ignore case when doing completion
>> > set mark-directories on
>> > # Completed dir names have a slash appended
>> > set visible-stats on
>> > # List ls -F for completion
>> > "\C-i": menu-complete
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > The TAB completion DID NOT work.
>> >
>> >
>> > Tried a lot but no luck.
>> >
>> >
>> > I then moved the above section to /etc/inputrc and restarted the
>> > machine
>> >
>> >
>> > and VIOLA the tab completion works.
>> >
>> >
>> > But in my office env, I dont have the luxury of modifying
>> > the /etc/inputrc and only .inputrc will help.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Any ideas/suggestion would help.
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