From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 4 15:10:05 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AC3916A4CE for ; Wed, 4 May 2005 15:10:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtpq3.home.nl (smtpq3.home.nl [213.51.128.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E147A43D5C for ; Wed, 4 May 2005 15:10:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dodell@offmyserver.com) Received: from [213.51.128.132] (port=51238 helo=smtp1.home.nl) by smtpq3.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1DTKxE-00024y-Al for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Wed, 04 May 2005 16:34:24 +0200 Received: from cc740438-a.deven1.ov.home.nl ([82.72.15.61]:1620 helo=[192.168.1.101]) by smtp1.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1DTKxD-00062a-7t for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Wed, 04 May 2005 16:34:23 +0200 Message-ID: <4278DD71.20400@offmyserver.com> Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 16:34:25 +0200 From: "Devon H. O'Dell" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <200505041429.j44ETZMh036122@fire.jhs.private> In-Reply-To: <200505041429.j44ETZMh036122@fire.jhs.private> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean Subject: Re: boot banner project X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 15:10:05 -0000 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