Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 21:14:47 +1030 From: Ian Moore <imoore@picknowl.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Warren <shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com> Subject: Re: Tab to Auto-Complete + .... Message-ID: <200501182114.56911.imoore@picknowl.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200501182030.52598.shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com> References: <200501182030.52598.shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com>
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--nextPart1273607.qGVkGauVjH Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 21:00, Warren wrote: > What is need for me to add/do in order for the pressing of Tab to > autcomplete a name to work? It works fine in root .. also when i press t= he > up or down arrow keys it dosent bring up the previous command issued ... > > im using FreeBSD5.3-STABLE What shell are you using? It sounds like you might be using /bin/sh, the=20 Bourne shell, which doesn't support those functions, but is the default for= =20 non-root accounts. The root account by default uses /bin/csh (actually the tcsh) which does wh= at=20 you want. So all you need to do is change the chell of your user. The easiest way is to login as your user & type chsh On the line than starts with Shell:, change /bin/sh to /bin/csh Save the changes and then logout & login again & you should have command li= ne=20 completion & job history. To make auto-completion better, edit the file .cshrc in your home directory= =20 and add the line autolist =3D ambigous after the set prompt =3D line. Alternatively, you could install & use another shell like bash or ksh... Cheers, =2D-=20 Ian GPG Key: http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/imoore/imoore.asc --nextPart1273607.qGVkGauVjH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD4DBQBB7OiofITqkXhImmIRAggiAJjDkAZk1bb1n982HxgF/nXIb5TgAJ4uVmaY vMtlB4ptNuueqF9Z7qFTEQ== =kmm6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1273607.qGVkGauVjH--
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