Comments on: reverse-menu-complete in bash

By: Doskey like tab completion and various other fixes /power user hacks for the mac console prompt (ctrl-left,right arrow) « Matt Brown – Journeys of a software engineer

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 06:28:12 +0000

[...] show-all-if-ambiguous instead#”t”: menu-complete## shift-tab to reverse cycle complete http://www.tikirobot.net/wp/2006/03/29/reverse-menu-complete-in-bash/#C-y: [...]

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:45:46 +0000

Thanks rajbot and Ryan. (Ryan’s version worked for me).

Not having that was driving me nuts!

By: Pando

Pando — Sun, 13 May 2007 22:12:52 +0000

Thx Ryan!
That really helped me out. :)

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 07:56:18 +0000

Using “\e” to invoke the escape key (which is how the meta sequence is invoked on my non-meta-key-having keyboard)instead of “\M-” works for me:

“\e[Z”: “\e-1\C-i”

By: rajbot

rajbot — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:36:47 +0000

Hmmm… are you logged in at console or through a terminal? If you are using a terminal, check the ‘alt sends meta’ setting in your terminal program.

You can use ‘xev’ to debug keypress events, which might help.

I suspect your problem might be due to the way your terminal program is mapping Alt to meta, but am a little unsure why it’s not working for you.. I wonder if ‘M–’ (two minus signs there) is actually entering a -1 arg in your case.

By: matenko

matenko — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:03:54 +0000

This is such a useful tip! – shame it does not work here… :-((

I can type Alt+- and Ctrl+i manually and it works.

But using the above entry in my inputrc I always get a question mark printed out when using Ctrl-y.

I am using debian etch with libreadline5-5.1-7 and bash-3.1-5.

Any hints how to get it work would be very much appreciated, thanks!