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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat Bash: menu-complete and reverse Post 302792369 by ozkanb on Wednesday 10th of April 2013 09:03:23 AM
Old 04-10-2013
Bash: menu-complete and reverse
Hi,

In the archives I found this:

Quote:
On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 20:04:15 -0300
Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto <hlen ig com br> wrote:

>
> Hello, I would like to bind menu-complete with a -1 argument to
> something, S-TAB for instance. Is there any way to do that? Other shells
> offer reverse-menu-complete. If I could bind readline arguments..
>
> bind S-TAB:'menu-complete(-1)' - is there something like this?
>

Hi Herculano,

This is a bit of a tough one, and depends on how you have readline
configured (ie. emacs or vi mode). If you add the following to
the end of your /etc/inputrc file you should get what you want:

$if mode=vi
"\C-0-": digit-argument
TAB: menu-complete
"\e[Z": "\C-0-\t"
$else
TAB: menu-complete
"\e[Z": "\M--1\t"
$endif

"man readline" has all the details about why this works.

HTH,
Sean
And this works fine.
Code:
$if mode=vi
"\C-0-": digit-argument
TAB: menu-complete
"\e[Z": "\C-0-\t"
$else
TAB: menu-complete
"\e[Z": "\M--1\t"
$endif

But what I want is to reverse this. So I want that tab does reverse menu completion and shift tab does normal menu completion.

Can anyone help me with this? Thanks
 

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tk_popup(1T)						       Tk Built-In Commands						      tk_popup(1T)

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

NAME

       tk_popup - Post a popup menu

SYNOPSIS

       tk_popup menu x y ?entry?
_________________________________________________________________

DESCRIPTION

       This procedure posts a menu at a given position on the screen and configures Tk so that the menu and its cascaded children can be traversed
       with the mouse or the keyboard.	Menu is the name of a menu widget and x and y are the root coordinates at which to display the	menu.	If
       entry  is omitted or an empty string, the menu's upper left corner is positioned at the given point.  Otherwise entry gives the index of an
       entry in menu and the menu will be positioned so that the entry is positioned over the given point.

EXAMPLE

       How to attach a simple popup menu to a widget.
	      # Create a menu
	      set m [menu .popupMenu]
	      $m add command -label "Example 1" -command bell
	      $m add command -label "Example 2" -command bell

	      # Create something to attach it to
	      pack [label .l -text "Click me!"]

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SEE ALSO

       bind(1T), menu(1T), tk_optionMenu(1T)

KEYWORDS

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ATTRIBUTES

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