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Using the terminal under biolinux distro I realized that when I use the tab for auto completion the possible matching options are displayed under the command line and if I keep 'tabbing' each the options is automatically entered in the command line.

example: I type more + TAB

user@biolinux more                                                       [ 2:01PM]
admin.log     Documents/    missfont.log  Pictures/     Templates/    
Desktop/      Downloads/    Music/        Public/       Videos/

then press TAB again

user@biolinux more admin.log                                              [ 2:01PM]
admin.log     Documents/    missfont.log  Pictures/     Templates/    
Desktop/      Downloads/    Music/        Public/       Videos/

Notice that pressing TAB not only gives the next option for auto complete but also displays a list of the whole options without adding a jumping a new line and printing the list each time I press TAB to the shell.

Apparently the default shell in biolinux is zsh (echo $SHELL). Is this behaviour specific to zsh? Can this be mimicked on bash?

pedrosaurio
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  • See also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7179642/how-can-i-make-bash-tab-completion-behave-like-vim-tab-completion – tripleee Aug 25 '11 at 15:37
  • Thanks! that solves the issue of scrolling through the different options but how can I have the menu of options and now jump a new line each time I press tab? Sorry if I am not being very clear. – pedrosaurio Aug 25 '11 at 16:31

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Check out http://grml.org/zsh/zsh-lovers.html and give zsh some love :)