Re: [Help-bash] Converting from zsh

[Chet Ramey]

On 6/8/14, 12:51 AM, grarpamp wrote:
> I really like to convert from zsh. In part because
> zsh has some posix issues I hit on. Anyway, the
> last conversion step keeping me away from bash
> is I haven't found bash's completion options for the
> following interactive...
> 
> zsh:
> cd /us [first tab, completes /usr]
> [second tab, displays list under /usr]
> [third and further tabs, cycles through possible
> completions dirs under /usr]

Try running the following from a bash prompt:

complete -r cd
complete -p cd
bind 'TAB:menu-complete'
bind 'set show-all-if-ambiguous on'

This will do everything the zsh mechanism does with one fewer tab.

Chet
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