Tab autocompletion in Windows
Now that I’m doing quite a bit of my Python work in Windows, I’ve been forced to use the cmd.exe shell. I’m used to using Bash, usually though PuTTY, so it’s not an easy or pleasant transition for me. One of the reasons is that by default Windows doesn’t have any command autocompletion by tapping the tab key. I could have sworn it used to work, but I guess not. Either way, it’s just silly to have to type out the huge filenames.
Well tonight I downloaded Tweak UI 1.33 (works fine in Windows 2000) and found out that you can indeed enable autocompletion:
Set both of those to “Tab” and you are all set. Not bad.
April 26th, 2006 at 6:55 pm
Seems like you might enjoy it even more if you installed Cygwin. Then you’d have a real bash shell, like what you’re accustomed to.
April 26th, 2006 at 7:05 pm
You should try than UnxUtils at http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/.
These are native ports of some unix tools including the zsh shell.
Hope this helped you.
April 26th, 2006 at 7:22 pm
Marc/Ivica:
Hey, thanks for the tips.
I’ve used Cygwin in the past and always found the install to be cumbersome and the performance to be sluggish. But it’s been quite a while since I tried it, and it might be time to give it another shot.
I’m not familiar with unxutils, but I’ll definitely check that one out as well.
Thanks!! :)
April 26th, 2006 at 7:37 pm
Also i just found midnight commander for windows :)
You can find it here http://home.a-city.de/franco.bez/mc/mc.html and this is the direct download link http://home.a-city.de/franco.bez/mc/mc_95_nt-4.1.36.zip
Hope this helps to :)
April 27th, 2006 at 7:32 am
And yet another way to install Unix apps on Windows is to use the Services for Unix package and head over to nteropsystems.com where they have pre-packaged utilities.
April 27th, 2006 at 7:33 am
Oops.. that’s interopsystems.com — with an i