bad tab-completion

[alexhraber]

I'm used to tab-completion scrolling through the various files and folders, however the default within omarchy is to just print out the list of folders. That's an annoying flow-inhibitor -- when I have multiple files and folders starting with the same characters, I have to tab -> type -> tab -> type -> tab -> type -- rather than just tab -> tab -> tab -> enter.

If someone has a great starship plugin for this, please share.

I've already tried bash-completion from pacman, and that didn't come with the true tab-complete feature I am wanting for.

[MGross21]

There's always fzf and zoxide to try to skip to the directory in question 🤷

[alexhraber]

bash, and I've tried bash-completion but the pacman variant only shows the full list of files/dirs in the path, but does not support tab-scrolling through them.

[MGross21]

Shouldn't need extra plugin packages. Can try to put the following in ~/.inputrc:

# Tab Cycle
"\t": menu-complete

# Shift+Tab
"\e[Z": menu-complete-backward

I use zsh personally so my config is a bit different. Let me know if I misunderstood what function you were asking for.

[alexhraber]

Thanks @MGross21, I'll try in the morning. That looks like what I'm thinking. I appreciate you sharing this, and will share my results.

[harshvsri]

bro u can try fish shell it has very good completion suggestions, also comes with good syntax highlighting out of the box.
i think it can be used as a daily shell for most of the people its just not posix compliant but i think that would be fine for the most people.

[alexhraber]

I tried everything in bash (really wanted it native without fzf). No satisfactory results with bash, switched to zsh and got it working. Thanks all.

[coolbotic]

@alexhraber Sorry for the late comment, but this was the thread I found when searching for the same problem, so I thought it was worth mentioning. Have a look at my pull request #4634, it just merged into dev, so hopfully should be included in the next release. It adds the zsh like functioanllity to the default bash configuration, allowing you to cycle through the completion candidates with repeated tab presses.