The default setting for TAB completion in MySQL 4.1.7 with the mysql
client seems to be off. This is a PITA but what's a bigger PITA is that
it took me quite some time RTFM and STFW to find the answer, and at
that, it's incomplete. If I start the client with --enable-auto-rehash
TAB completion is enabled but as this is a rather long option to have
to type every time, I entered it in the [client] section of /etc/my.cnf
but this doesn't work.
I'm fairly sure that it is BEING read from /etc/my.cnf because if I
change its spelling slightly to e.g. xenable-auto-rehash I get an error
message on starting mysql unknown option: --xenable-auto-rehash
Any ideas which this doesn't work from the config file (and yes, I know
it's trivial to fix with aliases, scripts, shell functions, whatever)
Niall
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