intellisense Shell?

[Banko]

Hello Everyone,

Does anyone out there know if there is a bash shell with intellisense functionality?

I find intellisense to be the most useful option available for any application with a high level of text input.


Thanks in advance,

Banko

[dylunio]

Erm, what does Intellisense do exactly?

[Zelmo]

Try hitting TAB every now and then. Bash will complete words for you if there's only one match, and if there's more than one match you have to hit tab twice to see all the options.

[Cabhan]

I found a bit about it at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IntelliSense

As far as a shell goes, yeah, Bash has tab-completion for commands/files. However, applications run from the shell will not have this ability.

If you're talking about programming, Eclipse has this functionality, and while it's meant for Java, there are plugins for many other languages (C++, Perl, etc.).

[Banko]

Thanks for the responses guy. Unfortunately, the tab key does not provide nearly the same functionality as the lists given while you type using intellisense.

To the person asking what intellisense is here is a great example of it being used in areas outside of programming.

http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en

as you start typing in what you are looking for it gives you a list of matches and suggestions.

This would be extremely useful in a prompt, and speeds up using the program immensely.

Example you want to list the contents of some directory when you first type the letter l intellesense knows to list commands starting with the letter l, you push tab to take the selection then start typing the path, the program lists paths and continuely updates the list with each letter typed.

This example does not show the full power nor is it the most useful in this situation im just giving an example of how it works. But please check out the future google site link above and see the power of intellisence at work

[rob.rice]

the list of unix commands is way too large for something like this to be pratcal to see what I mean do a ls on
/bin
/sbin
/usr/bin
/usr/sbin
/usr/local/bin
/usr/local/sbin
you will end up with about 10 to 20 screens of commands
and about 30% need to have X running befor thay can run
you would spend more time fliping through screens
plus you will almost always have to type something elese in any way
than it would tack to type the command in
bash keeps a list of commands you have already used
so the more you use the command line the more usefull
it gets

[budman7]

I really like the Google beta site.
In fact, I made it my homepage.