[microdc-devel] Re: tab completion only completing local directories in microdc2 0.15.6

[Yaohan Chen]

It turns out that a line "TAB: menu-complete" in my ~/.inputrc caused 
microdc2's custom tab completion to be disabled, and with that removed, 
microdc2 tab completion works correctly now. I have no idea why this is the 
case (I just noticed that running microdc2 as a different user was free of 
the problem, and did a strace to find out that it reads .inputrc). Could 
anyone confirm and/or explain this? Maybe it's worth it to document this for 
any other user who might potentially encounter this problem (the TAB: 
menu-complete line seems to be recommended by some bash FAQs).


Yaohan Chen


On Monday 15 January 2007 06:50:26 am Yaohan Chen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I compiled microdc2 0.15.6 from source on Ubuntu 6.10. When I press Tab in
> microdc2 at the first word of the command, where it should normally
> complete the commands, microdc2 doesn't complete anything and the terminal
> just beeps. When I press tab in the following words, it completes against
> files and directories in the current directory where microdc2 was launched
> in. There's no context-sensitive tab-completion such as for users, user
> file lists and settings.
>
> There was no error when configuring and building microdc2, and it found
> readline correctly. I'm using libreadline 5.1. I tried in Konsole and
> xterm, bash and zsh and it happens in all of them. Could you help me find
> out what's wrong?
>
>
> Yaohan Chen