Re: Command completion a la tcsh

[Chet Ramey]

> I've just switched from tcsh to bash.  Under tcsh I used autolist to
> enable tab completion.  The default behaviour was to list all possible
> command completions after ONE tab.    Under a default setup of bash,
> the behaviour seems to be to list all possible command completions
> after TWO tabs.  This is somewhat irksome, and I was wondering whether
> there was a way of fixing bash to list command completions after one
> tab. 
> 
> I've read the bash (2.04) manual and searched on the web and through
> newsgroup postings for an answer to this question, but to no avail.

Put

set show-all-if-ambiguous on

into ~/.inputrc or run

bind 'set show-all-if-ambiguous on'

from a shell prompt.

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Chet Ramey, CWRU    chet@po.CWRU.Edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/