Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 22:33:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> To: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> Cc: FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org> Subject: Re: tcsh [TAB] ; man someth-[TAB]? [edwin] Message-ID: <20020418223038.U96175-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> In-Reply-To: <20020419114114.P56548@k7.mavetju.org>
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On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
> To: FreeBSD Questions LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Subject: Re: tcsh [TAB] ; man someth-[TAB]?
> Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 11:41:14 +1000
Please remember to reply-to-all as a courtesy when posting (i.e. use a CC).
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 08:11:45PM -0500, Julian Peterson wrote:
> > On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 8:02 pm, Peter Leftwich wrote:
> > > Is it possible under tcsh (or any shell) to configure the "man" command line command so that the user can type: prompt$ man shutd[TAB]
> > > And have the shell display commands either in ones ${PATH} statement or that have manpages on the system? Shweetniss.
> > Yes. add to your .tcshrc file: complete man 'p/*/c/'
> > It's documented in the tcsh(1) man page FYI.
> What I wonder (after trying man asprin* to test this) is how safe this is regarding wildcard-expansion:
By "safe" what do you mean? If you accidentally did "man somefile.tgz" or
"man myfile.zip" man would normally (safely) report "No manual entry for
myfile.zip" or whatever.
> [~] edwin@k7>man a*
> No manual entry for adminspotting.png
> No manual entry for adstr.zip
> No manual entry for allegro-4.0.0
> No manual entry for allegro-4.0.0.tar.gz
> No manual entry for apache_1.3.20
> :-/
> Edwin
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So my advice would be -- Don't do that. :) Don't run man
[anything][wildcard_here] *grin*
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