[ale] Open Suse and the .inputrc issues

[Tim Watts]

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
> 
> 
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> 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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