From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 18 19:24:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from topaz.mdcc.cx (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BA4B37B405 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 19:24:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from k7.mavetju.org (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by topaz.mdcc.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E48A2B671; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 04:24:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: by k7.mavetju.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C6E0622C; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 12:24:14 +1000 (EST) Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 12:24:14 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Julian Peterson Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tcsh [TAB] ; man someth-[TAB]? Message-ID: <20020419122414.D56598@k7.mavetju.org> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , Julian Peterson , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20020418180024.D291-100000@66-75-1-142.san.rr.com> <200204182011.45710.weaver@earthcorp.com> <20020419114114.P56548@k7.mavetju.org> <200204182106.01119.weaver@earthcorp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200204182106.01119.weaver@earthcorp.com>; from weaver@earthcorp.com on Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 09:06:01PM -0500 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 On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 09:06:01PM -0500, Julian Peterson wrote: > That's not what it's designed for. > man a* is going to expand to: > man > Thats just the shells globbing in action. > > With the complete stuff, you type "man a" and it will complete as much > as it can. Typing "man shut" will expand to "man shutdown" (assuming > no other man pages have the prefix "shut") > > You can type "man a" and it will list all possible completions (ie > all man pages starting with an "a") Aha, I see now how it works. Nifty feature :-) Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: bash$ :(){ :|:&};: | http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message