Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 16:34:25 +0200 From: "Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@offmyserver.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot banner project Message-ID: <4278DD71.20400@offmyserver.com> In-Reply-To: <200505041429.j44ETZMh036122@fire.jhs.private> References: <200505041429.j44ETZMh036122@fire.jhs.private>
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Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Brian Candler wrote: > >>On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 12:38:18PM +0100, Bruce M Simpson wrote: >> >>>On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 10:40:00AM +0100, Brian Candler wrote: >>> >>>>Now the only essential package to install is a POSIX shell with interactive >>>>command history - i.e. "bash" - and it looks like /bin/sh has now gained >>>>that capability too, although sadly not tab-completion. >>> >>>tcsh is in the base system and has that capability. >> >>Except: >> >>(1) it's not enabled by default (you need "set autolist", which I only >> discovered recently) > > > FreeBSD-5.3 (with csh & tcsh) linked does completion without autolist set. > man csh: > If the autolist shell variable is set, the shell lists the remaining > choices (if any) whenever completion fails: > - > Julian Stacey Net & Sys Eng Consultant, Munich http://berklix.com > Mail in Ascii (Html=Spam). Ihr Rauch = mein allergischer Kopfschmerz. Also: prompt# ls /some/path/^D file1 file2 file3 file34567 file9 file99 prompt# ls /some/path/ prompt# ls /some/path/file3^D file3 file34567 prompt# ls /some/path/file3 ^D is quite useful in tcsh ;) --Devon
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