Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 21:16:52 -0500 From: Julian Peterson <weaver@earthcorp.com> To: FreeBSD Questions LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org> Subject: Re: tcsh [TAB] ; man someth-[TAB]? Message-ID: <200204182116.52864.weaver@earthcorp.com> In-Reply-To: <20020419114114.P56548@k7.mavetju.org> References: <20020418180024.D291-100000@66-75-1-142.san.rr.com> <200204182011.45710.weaver@earthcorp.com> <20020419114114.P56548@k7.mavetju.org>
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On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 8:41 pm, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> 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:
>
> [~] 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
>
That's not what it's designed for.
man a* is going to expand to:
man <everything in the current dir starting with an a>
Thats just the shells globbing in action.
With the complete stuff, you type "man a<tab>" and it will complete as much
as it can. Typing "man shut<tab>" will expand to "man shutdown" (assuming
no other man pages have the prefix "shut")
You can type "man a<ctrl-d>" and it will list all possible completions (ie
all man pages starting with an "a")
Regards,
Julian Peterson.
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