Re: boot banner project

From: Devon H. O'Dell <dodell_at_offmyserver.com>
Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 16:34:25 +0200
Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> 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:
> -
> Julian Stacey        Net & Sys Eng Consultant, Munich       http://berklix.com
> Mail in Ascii (Html=Spam).  Ihr Rauch = mein allergischer Kopfschmerz.


Also:

prompt# ls /some/path/^D
file1		file2		file3
file34567	file9		file99
prompt# ls /some/path/

prompt# ls /some/path/file3^D
file3		file34567
prompt# ls /some/path/file3

^D is quite useful in tcsh ;)

--Devon
Received on Wed May 04 2005 - 13:10:05 UTC

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