I have just installed RH 7.1 on a 486.

I am used to Mandrake, one of the little differences that is annoying me is the difference between the autocomplete's.

With Mandrake you type in 'lin' hit <TAB>, it then completes linux and lists 'linuxconf' and 'linux_logo'.

With RH it completes linux and beeps at you, you then have to hit <TAB> again and it lists both programs and beeps again.

Where is this set and how do I change RH to do the same as LM.

It's probably set in your .inputrc file. I messed around with it and came up with something, but not quite like you wanted. The .inputrc files are in the user's home directories and there should be one in the /etc directory. If you could get a peek at LM .inputrc file, you could copy it.
This is what I added to my home directory .inputrc:

C-x!: complete
TAB: possible-command-completions

The info about this is contained in the man page for bash.

That last line just cracked me up, the man page ha ha ha your funny 'man' ha ha ha.. I didn't go to Uni and do a course in computers so I can't make sense of 90% of the man pages, because that's who they are aimed at.

If I knew enough to make sense of the man pages I wouldn't need to come here.

Having said that I am very grateful that you answered and probably gave me the answer I was looking for. I will backup the current inputrc file and copy my LM one to the RH machine and let you know how it goes.

I don't have a .inputrc file in any of the home dir's so I will alter the /etc/inputrc

Thanks again.

I love the man pages, they are an excellent resource. They can be confusing at times but they are excellent to see what you can use or options you can use with any particular command.

Oh well, they always help me out.

I didn't say the man pages were useless.... I said they are VERY hard to understand.

Anyway linuxcool was spot on the money it is the /etc/inputrc file.

I copied the file from my LM box to the RH box and it works just like I want it to.

You're welcome. I'm curious about the code. Could you post a copy?

Don't ask me to make sense of it, I just know that it works
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## Linux-Mandrake Configuration
# (c) MandrakeSoft, Chmouel Boudjnah <chmouel@mandrakesoft.com>, Pablo Saratxaga <pablo@mandrakesoft.com>
# $Id: inputrc,v 1.4 2000/03/27 12:13:17 chmouel Exp $


# Show all if ambigious.
set show-all-if-ambiguous on

# 8Bits supports.
set meta-flag on
set convert-meta off
set input-meta on
set output-meta on

# Keyboard configuration
"^[[2~": yank # Insert
"^[[3~":delete-char # Suppr

"^[[1~": beginning-of-line # Home
"^[[4~": end-of-line # End

"^[[5~": previous-history # Previous
"^[[6~": next-history # Next

# those two are for rxvt
"\e[7~":beginning-of-line
"\e[8~":end-of-line

# on some xterm
"\e[H": beginning-of-line
"\e[F": end-of-line

# on nxterms
"\e[\C-@": beginning-of-line
"\e[e": end-of-line

$if term=xterm
#
# Application keypad and cursor of xterm
# with NumLock ON
#
# Operators
"\eOo": "/"
"\eOj": "*"
"\eOm": "-"
"\eOk": "+"
"\eOl": "+"
"\eOM": accept-line

# Colon and dot
# "\eOl": ","
"\eOn": "."

# Numbers
"\eOp": "0"
"\eOq": "1"
"\eOr": "2"
"\eOs": "3"
"\eOt": "4"
"\eOu": "5"
"\eOv": "6"
"\eOw": "7"
"\eOx": "8"
"\eOy": "9"
$endif

#
# Application keypad and cursor of xterm
#
"\eOD": backward-char
"\eOC": forward-char
"\eOA": previous-history
"\eOB": next-history
"\eOE": re-read-init-file
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Thanks Harry. This will keep out of trouble for quite a while.

Harry, I figured out which code in the listing is the one that performs the operation you wanted. It's this : set show-all-if-ambiguous on . The rest of the listing, except for the lines that start with ' set ', create macros.

Well, next time I setup a RH system I can just add that line in.

You learn something new every day.