[kwlug-disc] Bash Autocompletion (Nov 2022)

[Ronald Barnes]

Paul Nijjar via kwlug-announce wrote on 2022-11-05 00:11:

> Our second presentation this month will feature a deep dive into
> autocompletion in the Bash shell. John Steel will show us how
> autocompletion works, and some ways to set up autocompletions for your
> own programs.

I forgot to mention it during the meeting, so this seems a good time - 
one can colourize their auto-completions by adding variations of these 
lines to their /etc/inputrc:

> ## From "man readline":
> set colored-completion-prefix on
> set colored-stats on
> set completion-ignore-case on
> set completion-map-case on

I've been using the first two options for quite a while, and when 
looking at long items, say Docker container IDs, colourizing the parts 
that match what's been typed is invaluable.


Just added the last 2 options to my /etc/inputrc a few minutes ago; no 
results to report on them yet.



rb