Let's say I have the following files in my current directory: buildBar.bat buildFoo.bat buildHouse.bat And I type the following at my command prompt, ./bu and then TAB. In Bash, it gets expand...

TAB completion works fine in iPython terminal, but not in Firefox browser. So far I had tried but failed, 1). run a command $ sudo easy_install readline, then the .egg file was wrote in /usr/l...

I am running Ubuntu 13.10 and fish 2.1.0. I want to write myself a Python script to do some tasks from the command line. The script will require command line arguments. How can I write my script s...

I have a Git alias update that I would like to outfit with branch-name completion. The alias is defined like so: [alias] update = "!f() { git push . origin/$1:$1; }; f" (It updates a local trac...

I'm using argcomplete to have Tab completion in Bash. argcomplete offers global completion for bash, but doesn't for zsh. I would like to create a file ~/.zsh_completion, to contain the to be com...

I have a script that requires as an argument the name of command and arguments of that command. So I want to write a completion function that would complete the name of the command and would compl...

I was so used to the way of opening a file in Emacs, by just C-x C-f and typing and tab-completing, without needing to use a mouse. In VS Code, I have to go through a "open file" system d...

When doing tab-completion within bash (e.g. cd dir_ <TAB>), subsequent hits of Tab cause the list of matching options to be re-printed, once per hit of the Tab key (picture below). Each new l...

In zsh, I have a function called g which acts like this: with no arguments, call git status with one or more arguments, delegate to git with all given arguments - i.e. call git $@ I would like ...

Tab completion on IPython seems not to be working. For example, import numpy numpy.<tab> simply adds a tab. import numpy num<tab> just adds a tab, too. Could you please suggest so...

The whole issue is discussed here and here. Since no one involved in those discussions was 100% sure about the issue, I'm asking for help here. (For the sake of completeness, I'll start from the be...

I have windows 10 OS with WSL enabled and docker for windows installed. When I type docker in PowerShell and hit tab, it suggests me with the corresponding folders and files in my working directory...

I've installed Mercurial (1.4.3-1) on ubuntu and it doesn't do tab completion in bash by default. What is the simplest way to enable this feature?

Is there a way to specify that a particular command has case insensitivity, without turning on case insensitivity globally (at least for that shell)? In my particular case, I have a small app that...

I'm trying to write a small command launcher application, and would like to use bash's tab completions in my own completion system. I've been able to get a list of completions for general commands ...

Within the Bash shell, I can use tab-completion to use suggest file and directory names. How can I achieve this with nodejs and readline? Examples: /<Tab> should suggest /root/, /bin/, etc...

I have a Bash tab-completion script for Apache's Hadoop. Normally, I use zsh as my day-to-day shell. It tends to be pretty bash-like when I need it to be, but it looks like the tab-completion syste...

Has anybody been able to set up auto-complete for the AWS CLI with fish shell? The AWS documentation only offers the guide for bash, tcsh, and zsh. Bash exports the variables COMP_LINE and COMP_PO...

I am using zsh with oh-my-zsh on Ubuntu 18.04.2. Currently, Git is installed at version 2.20.1. Whenever I want to checkout a local branch from a remote (origin) I try to use the tab completion in...

In IPython, I am used to write function( and then strike a tab, and get the contents of the docstring and a list of the named arguments. However, this stopped working since I installed IPython...

I'm trying to figure out how to implement tab completion for subcommands in a C++ application. I would like it to function much like Git's tab completion. I'm trolling through Git's source, but it'...

I'm on OS X Mountain Lion, running the included ZSH shell (4.3.11) with Oh-My-ZSH installed over the top. When using tab completion with commands such as homebrew, when ZSH lists the available com...

With new versions of git new commands have been added which I will probably never use. Is there a way I can disable these commands so that I my tab completion is faster? For ex: before, git check&l...

When I create an python3 virtual-env, tab-completion (default with python3) does not work any more. Why is that? virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3 --system-site-packages ~/venv3.site . ~/venv3.site/b...

Is it possible to make bash auto-completion look like in Cisco IOS shell? I mean to add short descriptions for each completion, like this: telnet 10.10.10. (TAB Pressed) 10.10.10.10 - routerA 1...