Bash – How to trigger autocomplete without a tab key

autocompletebashkeyboardssh

I'm ssh-ing to my machine using my iPhone with an app called ServerAuditior. It doesn't have tab key. See screenshot.

How do I trigger autocomplete without the tab key? I don't want to type a lot of characters for cd-ing.

I have arrow keys in this app. I can swipe down left right to use arrow keys. It would be amazing if I can bind it to forward arrow key when blinker in at end of my command

enter image description here

Best Answer

You can bind the completion command to any key sequence. Pick something that's easy to type but unlikely to appear in a normal command, like say capital A. Put bind "A":complete in ~/.bashrc, and new bash instances will use capital A as well as TAB to invoke completion.

Related Solutions

Have Sun keyboard moon key (116) not shut down the computer

I suppose you have acpid installed, in this case you should place a (an even empty) file at /etc/acpi/events/powerbtn as the default handler checks if this file exists and if it is, it will not initiate a shutdown on its own.

From /etc/acpid/powerbtn-acpi-support.sh:

if [ -f /etc/acpi/events/powerbtn -o -f /etc/acpi/events/powerbtn.dpkg-bak ] ; then 
    logger Acpi-support not handling power button, acpid handler exists at /etc/acpi/events/powerbtn or /etc/acpi/events/powerbtn.dpkg-bak.
    exit 0
fi

Just to be totally sure, you can also comment out the line #31 having:

    /sbin/shutdown -h -P now "Power button pressed"

in the very same file.

Centos – First key pressed repeates forever

I kept having almost this same issue (sort of) when I would access my Centos 6 VM through Windows RDP or VNC. I noticed that my issue appeared to be a Windows-like "Sticky Key" where I would start typing something either in the vim editor or in my IDE (Intellij IDEA) and all the sudden the last letter I typed would just "take off". For example, I could be typing "int newInt" and after the 't' in 'newInt' the editor would do something like "newInttttttttttttt.." until I hit the 'Esc' key or 'Ctrl+c' to stop it. VERY ANNOYING!

I started looking around and I was surprised to not find any one else having this same issue.. I thought maybe I was searching incorrectly because, after all, this is a strange bug to try and search for. Some suggest hitting ctrl+Shift simultaneously to disable - but that seems to be for Windows Sticky Keys only, but I haven't noticed it happening since I did that. So try that first. Then (If you have gnome/GUI desktop) enabled, go to System->Preferences->Keyboard and turn off / uncheck "Repeat Keys" under the "General" tab. I'm not sure which of those two did the trick for me, but I haven't had an issue since I did that.

Best Answer

Related Solutions

Have Sun keyboard moon key (116) not shut down the computer

Centos – First key pressed repeates forever

Related Question