This is basically just a follow up from my last post which is now noise – I’m sorry – Here are a few clarifications:

1. “Command Completion” not “Tab Hinting”
   What I had called “Tab Hinting” actually has a name in Linux. The correct term for it is “Command Completion”

2. “It was always working”
   Man, do I have pie on my face. It was apparently working all along, it’s just that it was/is working slowly, a little slower in Fedora than in Xubuntu which is what I was used to, but still working – for example if you type yum install ecl[tab][tab] it will hang for a little, then display a list of packages that start with ecl. I’m currently investigating how to make it faster. If however it does not work for you in Fedora something you can try is adding the line “set show-all-if-ambiguous on” in your /etc/inputrc folder.

   Here’s a quick example:

   # do not bell on tab-completion
   #set bell-style noneset meta-flag on
   set input-meta on
   set convert-meta off
   set output-meta on
   set show-all-if-ambiguous on
   ... *snip*

Having recently converted my office and home workstations to Xubuntu, I’ve decided to dive in a little deeper and see what the Red Hat backed Fedora 7 is like.

There are a few reasons for my decision to give Fedora a try.

The first is just genuine interest – I like the thought of trying new things and just wanted to see what a non-debian-based distro is link.

The second – which is probably the primary reason for me doing this is because the Dedicated Servers we are leasing in the States are all running Red Hat Enterprise.

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