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Date:      Thu, 1 May 1997 09:20:26 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        FreeBSD-Hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD-Hackers)
Subject:   Re: tcsh history question
Message-ID:  <19970501092026.OG36940@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970430225815.2126D-100000@Journey2.mat.net>; from Chuck Robey on Apr 30, 1997 22:59:41 -0400
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.970430225815.2126D-100000@Journey2.mat.net>

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As Chuck Robey wrote:

> Does anyone know why, when I'm in tcsh or csh and using the ESC key to do 
> filename completion, it takes TWO hits when I'm an ordinary user, but 
> only one when I'm root?

Because tcsh uses TAB, and alternatively allows you for two ESCs.  (A
single ESC can become something else, e.g. ESC p to search backwards.)

csh uses ESC.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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