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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

OMZ and TAB gang raise up!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Op does not know about $CDPATH and tab completion keke

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I've seen a number of comments imply the possibility of case insensitive tab completion. Is this real and how do I do it?

I have multiple times fumbled with forgetting to capitalize something, only for the terminal to 'dunk' at me

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

For bash, this is enough:

# Bash TAB-completition enhancements
# Case-insensitive
bind "set completion-ignore-case on"
# Treat - and _ as equivalent in tab-compl
bind "set completion-map-case on"
# Expand options on the _first_ TAB press.
bind "set show-all-if-ambiguous on"

If you also add e.g.CDPATH=~/Documents, it will also always autocomplete from your Documents no matter which directory you're on.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i renamed my home folders to dl, docs, pics, etc. and use auto-cd (whatever its called) to just type dl instead of cd dl

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (7 children)

You could just use aliases in your bashrc

alias dl=cd ~/Downloads

Might need quotes around the command.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (7 children)

There are two Linux paradigms that I consider stupid. One is the use of centralized software repositories managed by the distro instead of individual developer maintained installers. The other one is file system case sensibility. They already admitted defeat on the first one with the rise of containerised applications. I wonder how much longer they'll keep the charade on the second one.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here's how to fix this[+]

Create $HOME/.config/user-dirs.dirs with

XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/downloads"

You may need to logout/in for things to reread this file.

The full list of keys is:

  • XDG_DESKTOP_DIR
  • XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR
  • XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR
  • XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR
  • XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR
  • XDG_MUSIC_DIR
  • XDG_PICTURES_DIR
  • XDG_VIDEOS_DIR

+: Since this is Linux, this is a fix for many but not all cases.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Just make a downloads folder if you absolutely want to go there

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (8 children)

You can also disable case sensivity in bash

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

cd dow *tab

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Zoxide and cd down. ;)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Fish baby. Fish.

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