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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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