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How do i prevent websites from appearing in autocomplete in terminal?
I am running MacOS if it matters
I am new to terminal and work in a lab at my uni, we have a server where we ssh into from our laptops. I am using ZSH as my shell and have no plugins besides git ...
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Pressing Tab Key in Terminal Enters a Space Instead of Triggering Autocomplete
First time asking on this site, please let me know if I can improve the question :)
I'm helping a student configure her mac development environment.
We've got zsh setup, which I believe should come ...
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Autocomplete commands not working gnome 40
When I start typing a command, the terminal gives me suggestions from previous commands. But when I press the tab key it says: zsh: do you wish to see all 3536 possibilities (3536 lines)? Is there a ...
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Windows Terminal with git-sdk autocomplete for git doesn't work
I am using git-sdk in my Windows Terminal. "profiles"/"list" entry for it looks like this:
{
"guid": "{00000000-0000-0000-ba54-000000000002}",
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Bash autocomplete with wildcard
I would like to type in the terminal like I do in emacs:
emacs 2019-*subject*
When I hit Tab I get the first match:
2019-08-03-subject.markdown
What I would like is for it to show me the options ...
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AutoComplete Mac OS X doesn't operate normally
In my Working Directory I have 3 files and directories names:
Applications, Application, Appendix.txt
When I am trying to do AutoComplete by hitting tab it misbehaves
I type App and hit tab, ...
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ZSH auto-completion help not triggering for custom command options beginning with "--"
I often use the gencomp command with RobSis's zsh-completion-generator to generate ZSH completion definitions, and it works great for the most part! There is, however, one small caveat that I have ...
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How to autocomplete hyphenated directory name in OSX terminal?
I have this set of folders on 2 macbooks both running the latest version of El Capitan.
foo-bar
foo-bar2
On one system, hitting tab after cd f gives me cd foo-.
On the other system, I get cd foo.
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Is there a Mac OS X terminal application which will autocomplete commands available within a program? [duplicate]
I apologize if this has been asked before, but I've done some searching and haven't been able to find anything.
I have recently installed Fedora 23 and I've noticed the terminal application does auto-...
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Bash not auto-completing filenames
I am on mac os and using default terminal, i.e. Bash. I am quite new to command line and simply trying things out. For now, I am simply trying to cd into a directory and play a mp3 file there. I cd'ed ...
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How can I get vim autocompletion working in iTerm
I recently switched from MacVim to regular Vim in iTerm. I've been encountering an issue where I can't get vim's autocompletion to trigger using Ctrl-N.
Instead, I get iTerm's autocompletion which ...
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Is there a way for autocompleting commands' flags when using OSX terminal?
I wondered if there is a way/plugin/bashrc_function for autocompleting commands' flags when using OSX terminal.
Example
When writing grep --excl and pressing tab it would autocomplete to grep --...
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Terminal: go through autocompleted options after pressing tab
Pressing tab on terminal shows the possibilities you can choose from like below:
MacBook :~ user$ ls _
Directory1 Directory2 Directory3
How can I make the possibilities appear on the cursor (the ...
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Unintended autocomplete or alias in Terminal
There is a "strange" autocomplete function in my macbook.
If I try to type "ps -aux" in terminal (iTerm or TotalTerminal)
with the hit of "s" in ps, automatically this happens:
"ps -p $$
# Tells the ...
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Fish - A way to configure it such that it does not scroll through tab completions with tab
If you have a directory structure like the below
./test/locationOne
./test/locationTwo
./test/locationThree
If, with bash, or fish, you type in
cd test/
then hit tab, it will autocomplete until ...
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