• exu
      link
      fedilink
      English
      22 months ago

      If I have two folders in my directory, Dir1 and dir2, what does d <TAB> autocomplete to and what should it do?

      • Illecors
        link
        fedilink
        English
        32 months ago

        At least on zsh it would pop both of those as suggestions you can cycle through.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        22 months ago

        In the case of zsh it will quite happily do either and ask you which you meant just like if they were called Dir1 and Dir2. Also works if you have a dir1 and Dir2 in the same directory as well

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        02 months ago

        In fish it would immediately expand to dir2.

        If you have “Dir1” and “DIR2” and you type “cd d”, your prompt will look like in the next picture. Fish automatically transforms “d” into “D”, because there is no dir starting with the lowercase “d”.

        On a subsequent <TAB> you’ll get a list of dirs matching your prompt so far in which you choose an entry with the cursor key and enter it with the enter key.