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# 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"

• PennyJim@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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• csm10495@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thanks kind stranger. Never knew of this.

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  • zlatko@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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• kattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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 write vim 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
  

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