How to literally print the output of tab completion in the command line?

asked 2017-02-06 11:17:02 +0100

jipilab
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Some time ago, I realized that pressing tab after a "." in the command line opens a new window where it is possible to scroll through the possible methods to call on this object.

Is it still possible to print inside the terminal all the possibilities?

Even if I modify the preferences of the command line from "readline" to "multicolumns", it still does not show much of the possibilities and sometimes seeing all of them at once is faster than scrolling.

Is it possible to get this feature back as before somehow?

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answered 2017-02-06 15:06:21 +0100

tmonteil
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The answer is yes, see some more details on this answer : https://ask.sagemath.org/question/358...

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answered 2017-02-06 17:08:49 +0100

John Palmieri

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If you want an actual Python list of the possibilities, you can do something like this:

sage: shell = get_ipython()  # the IPython 'shell', which handles completion
sage: s = 'hello'
sage: shell.complete('s.r')
('s.r',
 [u's.replace',
  u's.rfind',
  u's.rindex',
  u's.rjust',
  u's.rpartition',
  u's.rsplit',
  u's.rstrip'])

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