On an older installation I had it somehow configured, so that I if I had an autocomplete list that I could bring up with tab, the first item was highlighted and I could use my arrows to navigate the list and confirm with enter. I don't remember how I set this up, any idea how to do this?
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I think you are using fish instead of bash in this older installation:
#apt-get install fish
#fish
(yes fish is installable from debian repository in jessie, i dont know if it is on debian 9)
Then you can change your default shell in /etc/passwd from bash to fish.
When installed, it has a very cool manual on debian in file:///usr/share/doc/fish/index.html
You will be able to configure it via a very cool web interface, by using this command:
fish_config
Luciano Andress Martini
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I just shut down my pc, will give it a try soon. – Hakaishin Jan 09 '18 at 15:23
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Fish looks really nice, pretty much what I was looking for. Thanks :) – Hakaishin Jan 20 '18 at 13:30
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It is a very nice shell! but no very nice for shell scripting, for that i prefer bash instead! But i think that is not a problem, if you consider the advantages of this shell ! – Luciano Andress Martini Jan 22 '18 at 18:51
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That might have been the zsh shell. In zsh, that's the behaviour you obtain if you run (or typically, add to your ~/.zshrc):
zstyle ':completion:*' menu select=2
(where that selection style is enabled as soon as there are at least 2 entries to choose from).
There are a lot more completion tuning you can do with zstyle commands. Or you can use the compinstall function for a menu-based interface that does the hard work for you.
autoload compinstall && compinstall
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I assume this would work too, but I am already happy with the fish shell. – Hakaishin Jan 20 '18 at 13:30