Comments on: Tab completion, part 2

By: sebastian

sebastian — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:22:58 +0000

sorry next post is likey to happen

By: sebastian

sebastian — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:22:21 +0000

hey just wondering when the next is likey to happen thanks

By: richard

richard — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:24:19 +0000

Reid: You’re right; I’m assuming people haven’t switched from bash to another shell, but I think that’s a fair assumption since bash is the default shell on every Mac, and I’ve never discussed how to change it here. This site assumes no prior Unix knowledge, so I wouldn’t want to overwhelm people with options that don’t apply to them. Eventually I want to cover advanced topics like changing the shell and then it will be important to explain the differences but until then I want to keep it simple.

Thanks for your comment and your tip about tcsh. I’ve always used bash so I didn’t know that.

By: Reid Ellis

Reid Ellis — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 18:29:31 +0000

This whole article assumes you haven’t changed your default login shell to tcsh (which i always do). You might want to at least mention this in passing.

For tcsh, you want to use ” set complete=enhance” to allow case-insensitivity. Also, it causes periods, hyphens and underscores to be word separators. This means if you have files called “a-very-long-name.txt” and “a_very_long_name.html’ you can type a.txt and hit tab to get the first one (assuming there are no other files that start with ‘a’)..