[ale] Open Suse and the .inputrc issues

[Chuck Payne]

Yes, it the same GNU Bash that all Linux uses. I as going to ask if he was
using bash.


On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 11:39 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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