Post #237,470
12/9/05 1:57:49 PM
12/9/05 1:59:29 PM
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Nope, it's a registry entry
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Command Processor has CompletionChar and a PathCompletionChar variables. Set them to 9 (tab) and there you go.
If you want to do it on a per user basis, you can use the same settings at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Command Processor
Edited by hnick
Dec. 9, 2005, 01:59:29 PM EST
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Post #237,471
12/9/05 2:00:04 PM
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Cool! So how do you set it to <esc>?
(or, better still, 2 <esc>s, like tcsh?)
jb4
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Post #237,474
12/9/05 2:06:44 PM
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ASCII escape char is 27 decimal.
Put that in and <esc> should work. I don't know if it takes multiple character strings.
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Post #237,481
12/9/05 2:36:07 PM
12/9/05 3:00:30 PM
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Re: Cool! So how do you set it to <esc>?
Erm, jb, which tcsh are you using? Every single tcsh that I've ever used1 has supported tab-completion. I believe that it also supports double-escape as a bash/ksh compatibility feature, but AFAIK, tab-completion is the native-to-tcsh one.
(Edit: Oh yeah...this part...)
1I've been using tcsh since at least 1995 while at UTexas.
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Edited by Yendor
Dec. 9, 2005, 03:00:30 PM EST
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Post #237,482
12/9/05 2:42:47 PM
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Was going to post something similar.
ksh and the original "sh" had the esc-esc
along with esc-k, esc-j, esc-h and esc-l history "browsing"
Twas very, umm, well you know, not fun.
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Post #237,493
12/9/05 4:51:23 PM
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ksh supports tab or esc completion
Put either of the following in .profile
set -o vi-tabcomplete
set -o vi-esccomplete
And yeah, the esc-hjkl browsing is unfun.. but whne you put your mind in vi mode, it's not so bad.
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Post #237,781
12/12/05 2:50:31 PM
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Not on Solaris ksh
Closest I can get to bash is 'export VISUAL=emacs', which has the bash navigation keys, but still uses esc-esc for "tab" completion.
Drives me nuts.
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Post #237,789
12/12/05 3:45:15 PM
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ooo. We're using pdksh on Linux
legacy holdover from SVR4 Unix.
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Post #237,815
12/12/05 6:40:10 PM
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Good. I'ts not just me...
...and the pile of inpenetrable and untranslatable TLAs that occupies my .cshrc file....
jb4
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Post #237,780
12/12/05 2:46:00 PM
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tcsh & <esc>
How the he-double hockeysticks am I supposed to know what version of tcsh I'm using?, it's not like there's a 'ver' command or anything. And we wouldn't want the 14 or so different shells to have anything resembling a common command structure or anything...that would be so....unUNIX! And while the literati might wish to while away countless hours debating the relative merits of csh's method for doing foo, against bash's method for doing bar...I ain't got time for that. I just need to get the occasional task done on the unix/unix-like systems we have here, and one of the time saving things I can remember is autocompletion using double escape. Course, the systems here seem to want you to use csh whenrver they want, which doesn't support double escape (or up-arrow for history, for that matter). But armed with 'exec tcsh' I can make even the most recalcitrant unix/unix-like system (here, anyway) do my bidding (which, as I have come to understand, is no small feat!).
My next great experiment is to understand which of the set {^Z ^X ^C ^D} actually terminates which program. Especially which one aborts 'man'. I'll keep you posted....
jb4
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Post #237,472
12/9/05 2:05:17 PM
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Guess M$ changed the default setting
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Post #237,507
12/9/05 6:22:41 PM
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Changes around 2003 & XP I think
or at least, the Win2K servers I occasionally have to play with won't autocomplete, but the XP and W2k3 ones will.
Except, of course, when HP-UX muscle-memory makes me hit Esc-Esc and erases the command line...
Two out of three people wonder where the other one is.
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Post #238,913
12/22/05 1:41:38 AM
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Correct.
Autocomplete was in 2000, but the regpatch was required to make it work. XP was the first MS OS where it was enabled by default.
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Post #238,915
12/22/05 1:44:15 AM
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Autocomplete was present in NT4.
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