Re: boot banner project

From: Julian H. Stacey <jhs_at_flat.berklix.net>
Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 16:29:35 +0200
Brian Candler wrote:
> On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 12:38:18PM +0100, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
> > On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 10:40:00AM +0100, Brian Candler wrote:
> > > Now the only essential package to install is a POSIX shell with interactive
> > > command history - i.e. "bash" - and it looks like /bin/sh has now gained
> > > that capability too, although sadly not tab-completion.
> > 
> > tcsh is in the base system and has that capability.
> 
> Except:
> 
> (1) it's not enabled by default (you need "set autolist", which I only
>     discovered recently)

FreeBSD-5.3 (with csh & tcsh) linked does completion without autolist set.
man csh:
       If the autolist shell variable is set, the shell  lists  the  remaining
       choices (if any) whenever completion fails:
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