• exu
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    212 days ago

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

    • Illecors
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      311 days ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      211 days 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

    • KillingTimeItself
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      111 days ago

      it depends on your shell configs. In my case it sits at dir/Dir (case insensitive) waiting for me to specify 1 or 2, where as if you disable it, it’s dependent on whether or not you type d or D.

    • @[email protected]
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      011 days 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.