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I just learned the trick for setting up cdpath in tcsh and it looks pretty useful.

However, it seems that auto-complete of sub-folder names doesn't come with it. Is there any trick available on that? It'd be really cool since I'm entering certain directories a lot.

I am using tcsh 6.14.00 (Astron).

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  • Do you have these in your .cshrc? "set autolist = ambiguous" and "set complete = enhance" ? – Hennes Nov 08 '13 at 23:19
  • Thanks for the reply, i just added these two into .cshrc, however seems it's not working. – Derek Nov 08 '13 at 23:27
  • Did you relog, source the file or start a new csh? (e.g. `exec csh`)? Which version of csh are you using? – Hennes Nov 08 '13 at 23:32
  • Yes, I did that. I'm not sure about the csh version, how can I tell? – Derek Nov 09 '13 at 06:25
  • Try `csh --version`. It probably yields a line similar to this one: "tcsh 6.17.00 (Astron) 2009-07-10 (unknown-unknown-FreeBSD) options wide,nls,dl,al,kan,sm,rh,color,filec" – Hennes Nov 09 '13 at 14:42
  • Sorry to get back so late. The output of this cmd is `tcsh 6.14.00 (Astron) 2005-03-25 (x86_64-unknown-linux) options wide,nls,dl,al,kan,sm,rh,color,filec` – Derek Nov 12 '13 at 23:50
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    If you still do not have an answer in a few days you might consider a bounty or moving (not cross posting) the question to Linux and unix. They have some [similar questions](http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/31161/quick-directory-navigation-in-the-terminal/31179#31179) which did get an answer. – Hennes Nov 14 '13 at 06:46
  • Thanks @Hennes for the tip. Do you know how exactly do I move a question instead of asking there again? – Derek Nov 15 '13 at 23:07
  • You can use the [flag] link to ask moderator assistance. They can (sometimes? always?) migrate the post. As for the possible delay for an answer: 1) Nobody knows. 2) or it is not possible (likely since it would mean searching for autocompletes in your whole cdpath which is resource intensive) 3) or people are not that interested in the answer (then again, I am curious if it is possible and I doubt that I am the only one). – Hennes Nov 15 '13 at 23:15
  • I just asked a mod. As long as the question is younger than 60 days they can migrate it. – Hennes Nov 16 '13 at 00:25

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I'm using tcsh 6.18.01-3 under Debian Jessie and file complete is available with the TAB key in the same way that its available under bash.

Can you upgrade to the newer version?

Also: https://kb.iu.edu/d/aids suggests that it should just work with TAB for you. Don't use ESC key.

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Try this in .tcshrc:

set autoexpand

as per https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/19256/tab-autocompletion-and-history-in-tcsh

or

set expand-glob

for just files

Another source: http://linux.die.net/man/1/tcsh

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