From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 26 10:47: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44D0F37B402 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 10:47:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1QIl3d57337; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 13:47:03 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 13:47:03 -0500 From: Michael Lucas To: Drew Tomlinson Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: History Search in tcsh? Message-ID: <20020226134703.A57311@blackhelicopters.org> References: <01c801c1bedc$2b7d7790$f82a6ba5@lc.ca.gov> <20020226154352.GE3595@dan.emsphone.com> <01e801c1bedc$f06b2200$f82a6ba5@lc.ca.gov> <20020226110216.A55665@blackhelicopters.org> <023c01c1bef5$ac7b9610$f82a6ba5@lc.ca.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <023c01c1bef5$ac7b9610$f82a6ba5@lc.ca.gov>; from drew@mykitchentable.net on Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 10:38:21AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Browse the existing documentation at http://www.freebsd.org/docs.html, and pick the document you'd like to add it to. If you do the writing, there are any number of people at doc@freebsd.org who would be happy to convert your work to the appropriate format. Yes, a PR is the correct format. If you want to learn how to edit the documentation, check out the FreeBSD Documentation Project Primer. :) Have fun! On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 10:38:21AM -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michael Lucas" > To: "Drew Tomlinson" > Cc: "Dan Nelson" ; > Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 8:02 AM > Subject: Re: History Search in tcsh? > > > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 07:47:47AM -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > > > Thanks, that was driving me nuts! I have one other "dumb" question. > > > How should I have known that M-p equals ESC-p? > > > > Through your Secret Ninja UNIX decoder ring. > > > > Serously, you'd stumble across this in a book on the shell. Knowledge > > that esc/meta is one of those things that old hands Just Know, and new > > users cry about. :-( > > > > If some new user felt like it, a friendly shell intro would be a > > wonderful thing to add to our documentation... > > Thanks. OK, I may take a stab at writing since writitng is one thing I > do fairly well. So what types of things should such documentation > contain? Should it be a man page? An addiditon to the Handbook? > Something else? If you (or someone) could help me with the format and > how to submit it (a PR?), I'll see what I can come up with. The worst > that can happen is that I'll learn how to use the shell! :) > > Drew -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org my FreeBSD column: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message