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Old 02-03-2011, 03:29 AM
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Shell Feature: Auto-Complete

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Originally Posted by manekineko View Post
Good idea! Uploaded a new version and added tab as fn-space for all supported devices.
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Unfortunately, this is less useful than I had hoped. Android keyboards don't have a tab key, so Android apps are too stupid to know what to do with it. Browser will actually type in a tab in a form instead of moving to the next field. Auto-complete doesn't work in terminal emulator.

I think if you use SSH though, it should work there. Let me know if it does or doesn't. That and maybe document editing ended up being the only thing it's really useful for I think.
Auto-complete, as well as command line editing and history are shell dependent. If you change your shell in the terminal emulator, assuming you have another installed, they will work. If you have titanium backup installed, you probably already have busybox's ash and don't even realize it. In that case you just need to tell the terminal emulator to use it. Typing sh at the shell prompt followed by enter works if ash is installed. To permanently make ash your default shell you can change /system/bin/shell to /bin/shell under the Command line option in the preferences menu of the terminal emulator app. If you don't have ash or another sufficiently robust shell installed (there is an android version of bash floating around on xda too), then you'll have to download one.

Last edited by F22; 02-03-2011 at 03:44 AM.
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