• zlatko@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    For bash, this is enough:

    # Bash TAB-completition enhancements
    # Case-insensitive
    bind "set completion-ignore-case on"
    # Treat - and _ as equivalent in tab-compl
    bind "set completion-map-case on"
    # Expand options on the _first_ TAB press.
    bind "set show-all-if-ambiguous on"
    

    If you also add e.g.CDPATH=~/Documents, it will also always autocomplete from your Documents no matter which directory you’re on.

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      1 year ago

      Setting CDPATH=:~/Documents/Dev makes navigating to any of my projects so much easier.

      Thanks for bringing it to my attention

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        1 year ago

        No problem!

        As an aside, I see we’re bringing the strangers thing over from Reddit. I hope more of the fun and funny stuff gets over, I miss some of the light shitposting.

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      Well completion-ignore-case is enough to solve this particular problem, the other options are just sugar on top :)

      I’m going to add completion-prefix-display-length to these related bonus tips (I have it set to 9). This makes it a lot easier to compare files with long names in your tab completion.

      For example if you have a folder with these files:

      FoobarSystem-v20.69.11-CrashLog2022-12-22 FoobarSystem-v20.69.11.config FoobarSystem-v20.69.12 FoobarSystem-v20.69.12-CrashLog2023-10-02 FoobarSystem-v20.69.12.config FoobarSystem-v20.69.12.userprofiles

      Just type vim TAB to see

       ...1-CrashLog2022-12-22   ...1.config   ...2   ...2-CrashLog2023-10-02   ...2.config   ...2.userprofiles
      $vim FoobarSystem-v20.69.1
      

      GNU Readline (which is what Bash uses for input) has a lot of options (e.g. making it behave like vim), and your settings are also used in any other programs that use it for their CLI which is a nice bonus. The config file is ~/.inputrc and you’d enable the above mentioned options like this

      $include /etc/inputrc
      
      set completion-ignore-case on
      set show-all-if-ambiguous on
      set completion-map-case on
      set completion-prefix-display-length 9