From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Nov 11 04:31:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA12017 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 04:31:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bamboo.ints.ml.org (intschool.easynet.co.uk [194.72.37.214]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA12009 for ; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 04:30:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stuart@ints.ml.org) Received: (from stuart@localhost) by bamboo.ints.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA13117; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 12:30:46 GMT (envelope-from stuart) Message-ID: <19981111123045.A12868@helan.org> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 12:30:45 +0000 From: Stuart Henderson To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_C=2E_Sm=F8rgrav_?= , Timothy J Luoma Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X desktop contest? + Desktop Env References: <19981110090436.07651@welearn.com.au> <199811101223.HAA09493@ocalhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=3Cxzppvauqwol=2Efsf=40fenja=2Eifi=2Euio=2Eno=3E=3B_from_?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_C=2E_Sm=F8rgrav__on_Wed=2C_Nov_11=2C_1998_at_1?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?2:46:18PM_+0100?= Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Nov 11, 1998 at 12:46:18PM +0100, Dag-Erling C. Smørgrav wrote: > > Tab-completion saves many many keystrokes and typos. > Yes. I wouldn't think it'd be too much work to add this to sh. Yes, it's probably the only thing people who don't yet know how to install a new shell are likely to miss from any of the more complicated shells (even NT's shell does command completion if you know the right magic). It would be nice if this could be hooked through histedit or at least made to work the same as in ftp (the main point being, either with or without trailing / for directories but congruent between the two; for example bash uses / but ftp doesn't, and that's annoying). imho it would also be nice to see some editing and completion capabilities added to samba's smbclient, but I guess this is the wrong place for that :) It seems to me that more useful ideas are coming out for X desktops now that people know that their contributions aren't just going to help someone else win a prize! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message