Bash completion for directories

[nelsooon]

Hello all,

I am using guake terminal.
Is there a way to perform a bash completion for folders when doing a "cd [tab]".
Actually it prints all files that are present in the pointed directory.

I've already :
- put bash-completion in USE flags of /etc/make.conf
- emerged bash-completion and gentoo-bashcomp
- eselect bashcomp enable gentoo (and even all completion possibilities by doing : for i in $(ls --color=no /usr/share/bash-completion/); do ln -s /usr/share/bash-completion/$i /etc/bash_completion.d/$i; done)
- and source /etc/bash/bashrc

Thank you for your help
nelson

[labo]

Have you tried the following?

[pjp]

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[Naib]

shouldn't this be other things gentoo since it is gentoo related?
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[Bigun]

[GabrielYYZ]

[Bones McCracker]

There's no way that I know of, but is it really too hard to type the first letter or two of the directory name before pressing tab? I mean, just how lazy do you want to be?

[pjp]

Moved from Off the Wall to Other Things Gentoo.

Didn't notice the Gentoo reference earlier.
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[dmpogo]

[mv]

First of all: Switch to zsh. Its completion system (once properly setup and activated) is way better than what bash ever will perform.

That being said, IIRC the bash-completion script had some support for cd, pushd etc, but I remember that I had written my own function for that since the bash-completion script did more than I wanted. (Of course, I did this before I learnt to know zsh.)

Thus, I conjecture that your problem is actually related with the recent change of the ebuild in the bash-completion package which now has to be activated differently and which was apparently not documented sufficiently: Look for other threads (or in the gentoo-user mailing list) and the bugs mentioned in the ChangeLog how to do it now. (Since I am not using bash ineractively anymore, I did not remember the details.)

[defer-]

[truc]

hehe,

<off>forget zsh, you want to use bash because it's almost as complete as zsh (oh well, almost almost...) and especially because it uses readline that you, poweruser, already know how to use extensively! </off>

To enable directory completion for cd, I have this:

[mv]