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	Tab completion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tab completion is a function of many command line interfaces, especially Unix shells, that allows portions of an incomplete filename or commands to be filled in when the Tab key is pressed.
		More characters can then be filled in, and tab completion invoked in order to get the desired file's name.
		If the list of possible options for completion is great, the shell will ask the user whether or not to display them in order to keep from overloading the machine.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tab_completion (382 words)

	Command completion
		The most primitive completion is when instead of typing in the arguments/options following a command, the user presses TAB and the shell automatically inserts (or gives you the option of inserting) new text based on which bit of the full command you're editing.
		If there is exactly one way to complete the filename and the file is a regular file, the shell will type the rest of the filename, followed by a space in case you want to type in more command arguments.
		Completion is when you can press a key (often TAB) and the shell automatically cleverly completes the rest of the word you are typing, based on the context you are typing it in.
	www.softpanorama.org /Scripting/Shellorama/command_completion.shtml (2328 words)

	G4 - Feature - Windows Tip: Tab Completion
		When you are moving files and exploring your machine, tab completion makes it so you only have to type the first few letters of the file or folder.
		With tab completion, you could simply type "cd de" and then hit Tab, and Windows would fill in the rest -- assuming that "desktop" is the only folder in that directory beginning with "de." Tab completion is one of the best little features of the Linux OS.
		With this tweak, you can set tab completion to whatever you want, though setting it to something like spacebar would be admittedly useless.
	www.g4tv.com /techtvvault/features/35122/Windows_Tip_Tab_Completion.html (340 words)

	BASH description
		Completion options of READLINE are : complete (TAB) Attempt to perform completion on the text before point.
		Bash attempts completion treating the text as a variable (if the text begins with $), username (if the text begins with ~), hostname (if the text begins with @), or command (including aliases and functions) in turn.
		Command completion attempts to match the text against aliases, reserved words, shell functions, builtins, and finally executable filenames, in that order.
	www.komkon.org /~romm/bash/bash.html (862 words)

	Running MATLAB Functions (Development Environment)
		Tab size--Number of spaces assigned to a tab stop when displaying output.
		Enable up to n tab completions--Check the box if you want to use tab completion when typing functions in the Command Window.
		MATLAB alerts you to matches and mismatches in pairs of delimiters, that is, in parentheses (), brackets [ ], and braces { }, based upon the MATLAB language syntax rules.
	www-rohan.sdsu.edu /doc/matlab/techdoc/matlab_env/comman22.html (486 words)

	Tab Completion - Waikato Linux Users Group
		A time-saving tool is known as command completion, currently known as Tab Completion.
		If you type part of a file, command, or pathname and then press the [Tab] key, bash(1) will present you with either the remaining portion of the file/path, or a beep (if sound is enabled on your system).
		By typing the partial command "upd" and pressing [Tab] again, your command is completed for you.
	www.wlug.org.nz /TabCompletion (445 words)

	Federico Mena Quintero - May 2005 Activity Log
		Tab completion is what happens when you hit the Tab key.
		If you then hit Tab again, Emacs displays a list of all the files that share that prefix — but having to hit Tab again is irrelevant; it could just as well insert the longest common prefix and display the disambiguation list at the same time.
		inline completion would make it hard to type new file names which are a prefix of the completion.
	primates.ximian.com /~federico/news-2005-05.html (1728 words)

	Tab Completion
		The Tab key autocompletes on the commandline, you type a few characters and press the Tab key and the command or the name of the file will be completed:
		Try this, "cd /u" and press tab now add an "s" and press tab, give an "h" and press tab, now we have got "cd /usr/share/" OK lets go on, type a "f" "o" "n" tab "t" tab "d" tab.
		If you don´t remember exactly how a command was written, type in the first character or two and hit the tab, you will get a list of all the commands that start with that character(s).
	www.brunolinux.com /02-The_Terminal/Tab_Completion.html (272 words)

	Klient.com - tab nick completion
		Tab completion in other windows continues to work fine in the meantime.
		A funny thing related to nick completion: tabbing to complete a nick, going to the start of the nick (ctrl+right arrow) and tabbing again will result in the nick next in line (i.e.
		I can't reproduce and I use the tab nick completion quite frequently.
	www.klient.com /forums/showthread.php?s=04e42d9845ebdfeb44db9c1169d335ba&threadid=1572 (699 words)

	xchat.org :: View topic - Tab-completion in 2.0.10
		Also great if it didn't stop tabbing at all because of the same reason, if I typo and hit tab I'm stuck with the wrong nick and I have to backspace do undo all the extra letters.
		Eg, it'd go through the normal process and if they kept holding down tab it'd remove the last letter(of what you hit tab on) and continue as if that was what you had typed to start off with.
		I fired up 1.8.11 to see how its nick completion worked, because I remembered that it had cycling, and found that it is the opposite of 2.0.x.
	forum.xchat.org /viewtopic.php?p=653 (1279 words)

	freshmeat.net: Project details for bash programmable completion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		But then when I pressed TAB to do a filename completion on the.rpm file I was trying to install, the completion choices where still offering yum's sub-command tokens instead of filename completions.
		When I tab out an environment variable during a cd, the $(dollar sign) sign is escaped so although the tab completion happens the cd doesn't work.
		A better description would be "adding completion features to bash tcsh, zsh, and other shells have both had for years now", rather than advertising as if they're introducing something novel into the world.
	freshmeat.net /projects/bashcompletion (7308 words)

	Tab completion
		Tab completion can complete the name of a command or file given only a few letters or sometimes even none.
		then hit TAB and the shell will try to fill in as much of the filename as is unique, which in this case is all of it.
		Once you are familiar with tab completion it takes a lot of the supposed drudgery out of using the CLI.
	www.cmp.liv.ac.uk /docs/linux_guide/node28.html (266 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		If the entry is ambiguous ;; each word is completed as much as possible and then the cursor is ;; left at the first position where typing another letter will resolve ;; the ambiguity.
		Completion ;; is supported in connection with wildcards.
		This is independent from the main ;;; completion code, except for `PC-expand-many-files' which is called ;;; when ""'s are found in the path during filename completion*.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/historic-linux/distributions/redhat/4.0/i386/live/usr/share/emacs/19.34/lisp/complete.el (1653 words)

	Penn Engineering - CETS Answers - How Do I Turn on Command Line Auto-Complete?
		Auto-completion is a useful function of some unix shells which allows a user to hit the tab key to automate various aspects of command entry.
		The default shell on Eniac is the C-Shell (/bin/csh), which does not support file completion.
		To use command line completion, you may simply type part of a command, and press tab to have the shell automatically add the rest of the word.
	www.seas.upenn.edu /cets/answers/autocomplete.html (273 words)

	ESS -- Emacs Speaks Statistics: Entering commands
		Command-line completion of S objects and a number of `hot keys' for commonly-used S commands are also provided for ease of typing.
		Completion is also provided over file names, which is particularly useful when using S functions such as
		Efficiency in completion is gained by maintaining a cache of objects currently known to S; when a new object becomes available or is deleted, only one component of the cache corresponding to the associated directory needs to be refreshed.
	www.xemacs.org /Documentation/packages/html/ess_4.html (3326 words)

	Tab Completion
		Settings Editor dialog page allows you to edit a tab completion word.
		A second type of tab completion is used with the Shift- key.
		The last word larger than the Tab Limit (in the Preferences) that was last displayed in the output window that starts with the last character in the command line is recalled into the command line.
	www.zuggsoft.com /zmud/help6/Tab_Comp.htm (133 words)

	Tab-completion (FSF GNU project) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		corresponds to a substring before the cursor for which completions could be found.
		are the list of completions as they might be inserted at the current cursor position.
		If no completions could be found, then you may also return the empty string.
	www.texmacs.org /tmdoc/devel/interface/interface-tab.en.html (402 words)

	Filename Completion
		If more than one file begins with the same string of characters, the file name will be completed only to the point at which the character strings differ.
		Because there is more than one match, the filename completion cannot continue beyond the point at which the strings are identical.
		Efficient use of the tab completion feature of a shell can save you a lot of time and keystrokes.
	support.interland.com /freedom/guide/filename_completion.htm (183 words)

	Tip #102 - smart mapping for tab completion : vim online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This is how you can map the key in insert mode while still being able to use it when at the start of a line or when the preceding char is not a keyword character.
		I prefer to be able to toggle tab completion manually.
		complete only the characters that are unique and then let me type another one and press tab again to comlete the rest.
	vim.sourceforge.net /tips/tip.php?tip_id=102 (1197 words)

	Shells bulletin
		`complete -d' and `complete -o dirnames' now force a slash to be appended to names which are symlinks to directories.
		Tab completion is similar to history completion, except that tab completion won't complete a previously run command.
		Instead, the tab completion will finish the name of a command or file that exists within a directory.
	www.softpanorama.org /Scripting/Shellorama/Bulletin/index.shtml (4500 words)

	2.3 Tab completion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		TAB (just above caps lock) is one key you should start using very quickly.
		How tab completion behaves might differ in different shells.
		Tab completion used to complete the names of files, programs and directories.
	pluto.fysel.ntnu.no /linux_intro/node6.html (49 words)

	Running MATLAB Functions (Development Environment)
		Use the arrow, tab, and control keys on your keyboard to recall, edit, and reuse functions you typed earlier.
		To use tab completion, you must have the tab completion preference selected.
		Note that the resulting lists from using tab completion might include files that are not valid commands, including private functions.
	www.oulu.fi /tietohallinto/ohjeet/unix/matlab/matlab-6.5.1/help/techdoc/matlab_env/command8.html (366 words)

	The FuzzyBlog!
		If you don't know what tab completion does, it lets the command processor "complete" commands you have entered by pressing TAB.
		Press TAB again and it will give the next file and so on.
		Tab completion is one of the unsung wonders of the Unix world and most Windows users don't even know it exists.
	radio.weblogs.com /0103807/categories/searchStuff/2002/08/28.html (601 words)

	Customizing TAB-completion
		For any completion that is to be offered, there is an element in the file.
		completion: the completion to be used if the full String in 'word' is at the end of the current contents of the regular expression field.
		There are two kinds of trigger-expressions which would both result in only one "\" to be inserted (both have completion="\") if they are matched by the current contents and the proposal is selected.
	www.bastian-bergerhoff.com /eclipse/features/web/QuickREx/completions.html (1000 words)

	Talk:MSH (shell) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The CMD shell it's replacing has tab completion.
		Even so, if it's the same functionality it's a very limitted kind of completion, being limitted to filenames (or, using an alternative setting, directories) rather than commands (or the fully programmable completion offered by, for example, bash).
		Perhaps "* full tab completion facilities" would be better?
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:MSH_(shell) (1739 words)

	Macworld: Mac OS X Hints: Show bash command completions
		The way Tab completion works, in general, is that you type some portion of a command’s name, hit the Tab key, and then are shown all possible commands that could be run based on what you’ve typed so far.
		Try a tab completion, and notice the change in output style; now when you hit Tab after typing a letter or letters, you’ll only see the next possible completion, displayed on the same line as the one on which you typed the command.
		There you have it; an alternative display mode for Tab completion, as well as a way to get rid of the need for two presses of the Tab key in the default mode.
	www.macworld.com /weblogs/macosxhints/2005/10/bashcompletions/index.php?lsrc=mwrss (982 words)

	Automatic Completion of Nicknames (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In addition, the concept of tab completion has been extended to the rest of the
		XChat also has automatic nick completion, a feature that people either love or hate: when it is turned on, any characters at the start of a message that are followed by the nick-completion suffix will be magically expanded when you press the Enter key.
		It does not cycle through nicks if there is ambiguity, but completes the nick as far as it can and displays the available options if you press Tab twice quickly.
	www.oreilly.com /pub/h/1949 (530 words)

	scooblog by josh ledgard : Vacation = Tab Completion and More for VSCMDShell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Tab Completion: This is the big one for now.
		You’ll notice tab and shift-tab both work to perform a lookup in the current directory for any directories/files that match!
		I got a version a while back and worked on cleaning the code, adding color for directory, dlls and exe using part of the existing Regex code with some modification and Tab completion.
	blogs.msdn.com /jledgard/archive/2004/02/02/66483.aspx (920 words)

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