MySQL Bugs: #68718: No tab completion in Windows MySQL client.

Bug #68718	No tab completion in Windows MySQL client.
Submitted:	19 Mar 2013 13:41	Modified:	25 Apr 2013 23:06
Reporter:	Andrew Pennebaker	Email Updates:
Status:	Duplicate	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: Command-line Clients	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.6.10	OS:	Windows (XP SP3 (x86))
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any
Tags:	auto, auto-refresh, completion, readline, refresh, tab, windows

Description:
The guides say that supplying the --auto-refresh flag on the command line, or adding [mysql] auto-refresh to my.ini in the installation directory, should be sufficient to turn on tab completion in the MySQL command line client.

I've tried both, but pressing TAB still inserts a literal TAB, it doesn't complete anything.

How to repeat:
1. Supply the --auto-refresh flag to the mysql command line client.
2. Begin typing "use <database-name>TAB".
3. Observe TAB failing to complete this, instead inserting a literal.
4. Repeat, adding [mysql] auto-refresh to my.ini.

Suggested fix:
It is said that MySQL v4.0 had tab completion in Windows, but that it broke in a successive upgrade.

Thank you for the bug report. Could you please point me where is mentioned in the Manual a variable called auto-refresh? . Thanks.

No feedback was provided for this bug for over a month, so it is
being suspended automatically. If you are able to provide the
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the status of the bug back to "Open".

My mistake, I meant to say --auto-rehash.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/mysql-command-options.html#option_mysql_auto-rehash

Thank you for the feedback. Duplicate of bug: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=52374 .