F8 inputrc: showallifambiguous doesn't work

[spmirowski]

    Message: 11
    Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 07:38:28 -0800
    From: Chris Grau <chris at chrisgrau.com>
    Subject: Re: F8 inputrc: showallifambiguous doesn't work
    To: fedora-list at redhat.com
    Message-ID: <20080102153828.GJ21982 at chrisgrau.com>
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    On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 08:53:51PM -0800, spmirowski wrote:
      

>     > I was wondering if anyone else has had problems with using 'set
>     > showallifambiguous on' in the /etc/inputrc Vim highlights it like it's
>     > a typo and doesn't enable single tab shell auto-complete like it does
>     > in Fedora 2 - 7.  I believe this was default in Mandrake/Mandriva as
>     > well.   It's a minor problem, but slows down the typing when one is
>     > used to single tab.
>         

    In my ~/.inputrc, I have,

        set show-all-if-ambiguous on

    I didn't realize it was possible (or maybe it's not) in some versions of
    readline to not have the hyphens in the key.

      

Haa Haa.  User error.  I forgot the hyphens.

Thx so much.

Stephen