[Konsole-devel] [Bug 160105] TAB-Complete not always available

[Robert Knight]

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------- Additional Comments From robertknight gmail com  2008-03-30 18:06 -------
Hello,

Konsole does not actually provide the tab completion.  This is a facility provided by the shell.  A terminal is divided into two parts:

- The terminal emulator (Konsole) which provides the window, menus, sends input to the shell and displays output from it.
- The shell ("bash" in Ubuntu) which prints the prompt, reads commands you input and executes them

What I think is happening when you type in "apti" and press TAB is that there is more than one possible match, in which case nothing happens on the first TAB press in bash.  If you press TAB twice, bash will print a list of possible matches.  When entering the command you need to add a few more characters so that there is no ambiguity.