From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 1 10:33:44 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9CE116A4CE for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:33:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from male.aldigital.co.uk (male.thebunker.net [213.129.64.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B28C43D5C for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:33:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from matthew@thebunker.net) Received: from gravitas.thebunker.net (gateway.ash.thebunker.net [213.129.64.4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by male.aldigital.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 621B397773; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:33:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gravitas.thebunker.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) j21AXZXD067001; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:33:35 GMT (envelope-from matthew@gravitas.thebunker.net) Received: (from matthew@localhost) by gravitas.thebunker.net (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j21AXQkU065131; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:33:26 GMT (envelope-from matthew) Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:33:26 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman To: Ben Munat Message-ID: <20050301103326.GD5353@gravitas.thebunker.net> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , Ben Munat , FreeBSD User Questions List References: <422424B2.1040809@munat.com> <20050301080924.GM8778@dan.emsphone.com> <422427DB.50504@munat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="fOHHtNG4YXGJ0yqR" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <422427DB.50504@munat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i cc: FreeBSD User Questions List Subject: Re: tab completion X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 10:33:44 -0000 --fOHHtNG4YXGJ0yqR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Dan Nelson wrote: > >In the last episode (Mar 01), Ben Munat said: > > > >>Why doesn't tab completion in the shell work for my regular > >>(non-root) user? > > > > > >That depends on what shell "the shell" refers to, of course. > > Grrr... top posting. On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 12:29:15AM -0800, Ben Munat wrote: > According to /etc/passwd, both root and my regular user are using /bin/tc= sh. Try the following: % set autolist % set autoexpand % set autocorrect % set matchbeep =3D nomatch then see if tab completion behaves more like the way you expect it to. If you like the way that behaves, then add those set commands to ~/.tcshrc inside the 'if ($?prompt) ... endif' block. For details of what those variables actually do and various other variables you can use for similar purposes, read tcsh(1). Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 8 Dane Court Manor School Rd PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Tilmanstone Tel: +44 1304 617253 Kent, CT14 0JL UK --fOHHtNG4YXGJ0yqR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iQCVAwUBQiRE9pr7OpndfbmCAQIZ/QQAgKvYUP2j+G2lJJT/h6aF88qOfuMoVIYn AVw9cMAIxb/qFC/wyJRRBfBPwGLDkOpfr1tKJ0ciQmumwLZxt8CVhainttsOkO7A aAeM5NV8zGor6/ve2keI8Csmhl4TniaXPWIHwlEWAKCk/lF0L2wtsAjgBrH4ygJb koN9UP97jhI= =aRtd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --fOHHtNG4YXGJ0yqR--