Tab completion gubbins

GNUless · #1 (**permalink**) 08-09-2006

Hello all

How do you configure unix terminal to list files as you tab complete. I'm using a unix terminal at work and when i first started tab complete on a folder would list all matches if there were more than one.

eg.

monkey.xml
mon.xml
monkeyboy.xml

in one folder if i cd into that folder

cd shared/.../xml/ (then hitting tab would list all files in folder and allow me to continue with my command)

also cd shared/.../xml/monk <tab> would list monkey.xml and monkeyboy.xml

I think faffing around with my .aliases or .cshrc since has caused it to stop how do i change it back?

Thanks in advance.

tayyabq8 · #2 (**permalink**) 08-14-2006

Which shell you are using? It depends on many things, also on your EDITOR env variable, check your EDITOR and shell, post the output here:

Code:

echo $0
echo $EDITOR

Regards,
Tayyab

GNUless · #3 (**permalink**) 08-15-2006

Tayyab

Yeah shell is tcsh my $EDITOR variable is undefined.

cheers R

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