Command auto-Completion

[Puneet Singh tandon]

Thanks for the Warning.
But ESCape doesnt have any effect in my case.
How do i check my command completion
sequence is set to what????

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi (again) Moodie:

Given HP-UX, hitting the ESCape key *twice* after typing enough characters to make the filename unique, should cause auto-completion.

Given two files in the current working directory; each beginning with "p" :

# ls -l p

...will *not* auto-complete, but:

# ls -l po

...when the files "peek" and "poke" exist, will offer "ls -l poke".

Regards!

...JRF...

[Puneet Singh tandon]

Hey JRF,
Could nt get any command auto completion but these characters ^[ only
Any suggestions

[Stuart Browne]

In most shells which do command-completion, '' is used as a replacement for the single '' press. So to get a list of matches, you'd do:

ls -al p

You'd get a BEL after the 2nd , and the list of matching commands after the 4th.

Now, if this doesn't work, check your 'stty' bindings to ensure that '' (^[) isn't bound to some other function ('stty -a' for the full list).

[Puneet Singh tandon]

No the escape ^[ isnt bind to anything.
Following is the stty -a log.


# stty -a
speed 9600 baud; line = 0;
rows = 40; columns = 140
min = 0; time = 0;
intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^H; kill = ^U
eof = ^D; eol = ^@; eol2 = ^@; swtch = ^@
stop = ^S; start = ^Q; susp = ^Z; dsusp = ^@
werase = ^@; lnext = ^@
parenb -parodd cs8 -cstopb hupcl cread -clocal -loblk -crts
-ignbrk -brkint -ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl -iuclc
ixon -ixany ixoff -imaxbel -rtsxoff -ctsxon -ienqak
isig icanon iexten -xcase echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh
echoctl -echoprt echoke -flusho -pendin
opost -olcuc onlcr -ocrnl -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel -tostop

[Matti_Kurkela]

The "stty -a" command lists only the bindings done at the tty driver level. They are in effect in all the programs run in that terminal session unless overridden, so they must be very generic.

The shell has its own set of key bindings, unrelated to "stty -a" settings. Each shell has its own ways for setting up these bindings: for example, bash's key bindings can be listed with "bind -p".

[Puneet Singh tandon]

Thank you evrybdy