[Konsole-devel] [Bug 158614] Small wish for tab autocompletion

[Robert Knight]

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------- Additional Comments From robertknight gmail com  2008-03-01 15:45 -------
Hello,

The tab auto-completion facilities are provided by the shell - the program which prints out the prompt and interprets and responds to the commands you type in.  This is probably 'bash'.

Konsole itself provides emulator which formats the terminal's output for display, the window and the menus surrounding the display area.

In addition, symlinks are not the same as a directory for some purposes.  For example, you can remove a symlink with "rm" but not a directory.  A symlink's location can later be changed to point to different contents.  So there are reasons why bash doesn't do this automatically.

Some programs have tab completion which works by cycling through possible matches (eg. Vim) as opposed to stopping after the longest common prefix (in your case "Program") and waiting for further input.  I don't know if this is possible in bash however.