Mike McCarty wrote: > I'd like to disable the bash "completion" feature. I've read > the info bash stuff, and I see lots of ways to specify what > happens after or during completion, but I didn't see (overlooked?) > how to turn it off. Any bash gurus out there know how to disable > it entirely? > > I don't want to turn off line editing, just completion. Out of interest – why? The easiest way would surely be just not to use it. The bash man page says: disable-completion (Off) If set to On, readline will inhibit word completion. Completion characters will be inserted into the line as if they had been mapped to self-insert. Earlier, it mentions where to put this: Readline Variables Readline has variables that can be used to further customize its behavior. A variable may be set in the inputrc file with a statement of the form set variable-name value On Fedora, /etc/profile sets the inputrc file to /etc/inputrc unless ~/.inputrc exists when you log in (or the environment variable INPUTRC has been set). So if you put set disable-completion on into ~/.inputrc , and log in again, completion should be disabled. You’ll also have disabled the rest of the settings in /etc/inputrc: you might like to either copy them across, or try putting $include /etc/inputrc into ~/.inputrc . Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail: james@ | Blessed are the pessimistic, for they take backups. aprilcottage.co.uk | -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines