tab-completion

My current use pattern of emacs results in my having several shell-mode buffers open, each running an ssh session. I am running into an issue with this, though - when I try to tab-complete file names and other things in my remote session, the shell attempts to use completions available on the local machine instead of on the remote machine. For example, if the file ~/foobar exists on the local machine and ~/frob exists on the remote machine, typing in ~/f and pressing tab results in ~/foobar instead of completing correctly. If I use ssh outside of emacs and try the same thing, I get the correct

Is it possible to color the completed part of the partial completion results in Zsh? Fish does this by default (in Gentoo at least) as shown in the image below: Full size image: http://i.imgur.com/tN6w3.png Yes, you can do it with things like that: zstyle -e ':completion:*:default' list-colors 'reply=("${PREFIX:+=(#bi)($PREFIX:t)(?)*==02=01}:${(s.:.)LS_COLORS}")' Just change the 01 and 02 colors so it matches your taste, for example to match your screenshot: zstyle -e ':completion:*:default' list-colors 'reply=("${PREFIX:+=(#bi)($PREFIX:t)(?)*==34=34}:${(s.:.)LS_COLORS}")'; (Taken from reddit

This may be have a better name than "custom tab completion", but here's the scenario: Typically when I'm at the command line and I enter a command, followed with {TAB} twice, I get a list of all files and subdirectories in the current directory. For example: [user@host tmp]$ cat <TAB><TAB> chromatron2.exe Fedora-16-i686-Live-Desktop.iso isolate.py favicon.ico foo.exe James_Gosling_Interview.mp3 However, I noticed at least one program somehow filters this list: wine . Consider: [user@host tmp]$ wine <TAB><TAB> chromatron2.exe foo.exe It effectively filters the results to *.exe . Thinking it

I am running Ubuntu 13.10 and fish 2.1.0. I want to write myself a Python script to do some tasks from the command line. The script will require command line arguments. How can I write my script such that fish can request and get possible values for a given argument. The list of potential values is dynamic. That is, it will be determined programatically (e.g. a list of folder names matching some criteria). The end result I am aiming for is something like: user@machine ~> myprog argument=fol<TAB> folder1 folder2 folder3 Where myprog is my script file, argument is the argument name and folder1

I'm trying to figure out how to implement tab completion for subcommands in a C++ application. I would like it to function much like Git's tab completion. I'm trolling through Git's source, but it's not jumping out at me. I've searched for ways to implement tab completion and haven't found a straight-forward answer, so I'm guessing it might not necessarily be a feature each individual application has to implement. Is tab completion a feature of the particular shell the application is being executed from? What are the basics I need to know about getting my application to support tab completion