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[Vinson Carrethers]

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Karl Larsen wrote:
> Knapp wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Nigel Henry
>> <cave.dnb2m97pp at aliceadsl.fr> wrote:
>>   
>>> On Saturday 13 September 2008 19:18, Knapp wrote:
>>>     
>>>>> Any help on the problem above gratefully received.
>>>>>
>>>>> Nigel.
>>>>>         
>>>> You mean like
>>>> sudo vim /etc/X11 (then press tab)
>>>> I would think you knew that so maybe I am misunderstanding.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Douglas E Knapp
>>>>       
>>> No, I didn't know the tab thing, but have just tried it with nano as root
>>> on /etc/X11, and got a bunch of files and sub-directories displayed, so can
>>> see where I'm going now.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the "tab" tip, which has resolved a long running problem.
>>>
>>> Nigel.
>>>     
>> Well, I hate to say it but it is time to read the manual, as that is
>> what I would have to do. It is part of bash. So something like man
>> bash should get you started. I know you can do ctrl-R to search what
>> you last typed starting at the present and going backwards. Guess I
>> will have a look also. It is a fun question. Maybe some Linux god an
>> the list can help more.
>>
>>   
>     Well for some reason it does not work for me at all. In a terminal I 
> write sudo vim /etc/X11 and then a Tab and it looks like /etc/X11\ and 
> it does not work. What have I done wrong?
> 
> Karl
> 
> 
The majority of the responses state that it works.  This is not a flame but just
logic!  You have the machine there, we don't, so you have the advantage.

For me it was simple.  I pressed the 'tab' key while in vim /etc/X11 and I got a
display similar to the bash 'ls <CR>' key sequence.

Did you press any extra keys?  What have you done that we didn't (oh, that's
right, you are not here behind my keyboard)(a minor bit of sarcasm, the lowest
form of humour, should I be sorry?) ?.

You are 6 years older than I am but I started using a keyboard with a
wire-wrapped 8080 board, CPM and a Heath Terminal.  Before that I coded a 6502
with switches one instruction at a time for dedicated system.

vince
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