From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Nov 12 7:20:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7457514DFC for ; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 07:20:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sprice@hiwaay.net) Received: from localhost (sprice@localhost) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA30663; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 09:20:33 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 09:20:32 -0600 (CST) From: Steve Price To: tao huang Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How can I use TAB as in linux? In-Reply-To: <19991112132434.59050.qmail@hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, tao huang wrote: # I can use TAB to shortcut the command in linux but I found it cann`t work in # the freebsd. How can I do for it? # And also how can I install a shell bash in the freebsd? Many people have already suggested to use Bash which is what I did for many years but I've since found Zsh. You might give it a try in lieu of Bash. It has a really cool configurable commandline completion feature. If you installed the ports tree then you'll find it here: /usr/ports/shells/zsh I have the following lines in my ~/.zshrc to tweak commandline completion the way I like it. bindkey -e # Emacs editing mode setopt auto_list # list completions on TAB setopt no_beep # don't beep on TAB -steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message