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<blockquote data-quote="CaldwellYSR" data-source="post: 1346721" data-attributes="member: 200976">As a recent switcher from Ubuntu (Well recent switch backer if that's a word) I'm finding myself in the command line a lot more than when I was a mac user before. One thing I really loved about Ubuntu was when I was compiling and running java programs for class my tab completion was really smart. When I needed to compile my class if I had a directory that looked like:[CODE]Example.javaExample.classClient.javaClient.class[/CODE]and I needed to compile the Client.java to take into account the most recent changes I would type:[CODE]javac C [TAB][/CODE]and it would complete to[CODE]javac Client.java[/CODE]ignoring the .class files because you can't run javac on a .class. Also when I wanted to run the file typing[CODE]java C [TAB][/CODE]would result in[CODE]java Client[/CODE]with no period. This was a very smart way of doing the tab completion that I got so used to that now it's driving me crazy when I hit tab and it gives me the Client. without actually completing to what I need it to be.So is there any way to make the Mac bash completion smarter so that it would have this same effect?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CaldwellYSR, post: 1346721, member: 200976"] As a recent switcher from Ubuntu (Well recent switch backer if that's a word) I'm finding myself in the command line a lot more than when I was a mac user before. One thing I really loved about Ubuntu was when I was compiling and running java programs for class my tab completion was really smart. When I needed to compile my class if I had a directory that looked like: [CODE] Example.java Example.class Client.java Client.class[/CODE] and I needed to compile the Client.java to take into account the most recent changes I would type: [CODE]javac C [TAB][/CODE] and it would complete to [CODE] javac Client.java[/CODE] ignoring the .class files because you can't run javac on a .class. Also when I wanted to run the file typing [CODE]java C [TAB][/CODE] would result in [CODE]java Client[/CODE] with no period. This was a very smart way of doing the tab completion that I got so used to that now it's driving me crazy when I hit tab and it gives me the Client. without actually completing to what I need it to be. So is there any way to make the Mac bash completion smarter so that it would have this same effect? [/QUOTE]

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