Chapter 5: Extras





Display number of files:

 When using the Separator style, display the amount of files in the current directory.

Display uptime:

 When using the Separator style, display the System's uptime.

Display size of files:

 When using the Separator style, display the size of the files in the current directory.

Display number of the TTY:

 When using the Separator style, display the current TTY's number.

Display number of running hobs:

 When using the Separator style, display the number of running jobs [processes].

Display system load:

 When using the Separator style, display the System Load [1 min].

Display battery load:

 When using the Separator style, display the Battery Load [using apm].

Display Memory:

 When using the Separator style, display the free or used RAM (or both) in MB.

Directory Indicator:

 When using truncpwd for displaying the workdir, this char is used as directory indicator,
 eg: if set to \ it will look like: \home\chris\Desktop instead of /home/chris/Desktop.

Enable Tab-Rotation

 When enabled, you can use [TAB] to rotate between possible completions.

Enable histappend:

 When enabled, Append new history content instead of overwriting it.
 [only if HISTCONTROL is not erasedups]

Enable cd-spell:

 When enabled, it works around misstyped paths, eg:
  `cd /usr/sarhe' will still `cd /usr/share'
 as long as the first and the last letter are correct and there's no other possibility.

Enable cdable vars:

 When enabled, treat non-existing pathnames as variables,
 so `cd HOME' would when be the same than `cd $HOME'

Enable checkhash:

 When enabled, check if hash is up-to-date, else perform a normal pathsearch.

Enable cmdhist:

 When enabled, multi-line commands are saved in a single history-line.

Enable force fignore:

 When enabled, completions masked by FIGNORE are also hidden, if there would then be no result.

Enable histreedit:

 When enabled, it allows reediting of wrong history substitutions.

Enable no empty cmd comp.:

 When enabled, don't list all possible commands then pressing [TAB] on an empty commandline.

Enable autocd:

 When enabled, trying to execute a "command" that is not an executable, but the name of
 an existing directory, then cd into that directory rather than erroring.
 Bash 4.0+ only

Enable dirspell:

 When enabled, this is similar to cd-spell, but for directories and only during completion.
 Bash 4.0+ only

Enable globstar:

 When enabled, a new wildcard is available `**', it matches everything in any directory-depth.
 Bash 4.0+ only

Enable checkjobs:

 When enabled, exiting the shell while there are still processes in the background,
 print a warning rather than logging out and killing those processes.

 Bash 4.0+ only

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