Submitted by greggles on
Your old bash favorite, now in M$ Windows
- Hit the "Start" button
- Select "Run"
- enter "regedit", hit OK
- Expand "My computer" (by clicking the little [+] beside it)
- Expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
- Expand SOFTWARE
- Expand Microsoft
- Expand Command Processor
- Double-click "CompletionChar"
- Replace the value that's there with 9 (which is the ASCII equivalent of the TAB key)
- Click OK
I didn't come up with the sequence - but now it's here for reference. Thank goodness.
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Nilesh replied on Permalink
For my windows 2000
For my windows 2000 professional, the above steps did not work and I am not getting tab completion behavior.
Ok. It worked fine for me
Ok. It worked fine for me on a bunch of windows2000 and XP systems. Did you find a solution that does work? I'm basically going to assume this is "pilot error".
Aaron replied on Permalink
Semi Working...
My Windows XP Command Prompt will only auto complete folders and files, which is great, but what about the actual commands? I.E. Say I want to complete "ipconfig", so I type in "ipcon" then hit tab and nothing happens. This is very disappointing; I hope that I am making a mistake somewhere and Microsoft Command Prompt is capable of this very basic and necessary feature of a command line. Of course I am a linux user, so maybe I am expecting to much of MS CMD?
expecting too much from windows...
I think you are expecting too much, unfortunately. I do suggest you try out Cygwin (discussion/review on my site) which is pretty awesome in a variety of ways for "linux users expecting too much of windows".