Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 14:41:44 -0700 From: Joshua Oreman <oremanj@webserver.get-linux.org> To: Adam <raindogs_1@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dumb newbie question about file-name completion Message-ID: <20030525214144.GA1982@webserver.get-linux.org> In-Reply-To: <20030525213116.24291.qmail@web10405.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030525213116.24291.qmail@web10405.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 02:31:16PM -0700 or thereabouts, Adam seemed to write: > Here's a dumb newbie question... > > I just installed FreeBSD 5.0 on my PC and, while I'm > extremely happy about this and have already spent many > hours playing around, I've hit an annoying snag with > the tab key file-name completion. Everything works > just fine when I'm logged in as root, but when I try > to use any of my other accounts I can't use this > feature (I don't even get the [BEEP]). What am I doing > wrong? Is it possible that my keyboard configuration > is not carried over to the user accounts I set up? > Obviously I don't want to go stomping around as root > when I don't really know what I'm doing, but this has > made entering commands a bit cumbersome and I'd like > to figure out what I'm doing wrong. Root's shell is tcsh. It has filename completion. User's default shell is /bin/sh - without filename completion. To fix: user$ env EDITOR=ee VISUAL=ee chsh Change the line with `Shell: /bin/sh' to read `Shell: /bin/tcsh'. Save and exit, and log out. Now log back in, and you should have filename completion. -- Josh > > Thanks, > Adam > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. > http://search.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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