Bind shift-tab to complete-backward in fish

Posted by Sebastian on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Sebastian
Published on 2013-11-05T15:22:47Z Indexed on 2013/11/05 15:58 UTC
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I found myself using the auto-complete functionality of the fish-shell, where pressing tab twice or more cycles through the suggestions. But then I accidentaly pressed tab once to many, and I wanted to go back to the previous suggestion, so I pressed shift-tab, which only appended [z to the command.

For example, when I type cd D<tab><tab>:

~> cd Desktop/

I press <tab>, result:

~> cd Documents/

Now when I press <shift+tab>, the prompt changes to ~> cd Documents/[Z instead of returning to the desired:

~> cd Desktop/

How do I do this (preferably using the fish_user_key_bindings.fish file)? The documentation only provides the special function complete.

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