From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 1 05:08:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA20459 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 1 May 1997 05:08:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA20425 for ; Thu, 1 May 1997 05:08:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by who.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id AAA10321 for ; Thu, 1 May 1997 00:50:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA28511 for FreeBSD-Hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 1 May 1997 09:50:33 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA02938; Thu, 1 May 1997 09:20:26 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970501092026.OG36940@uriah.heep.sax.de> 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 References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Chuck Robey on Apr 30, 1997 22:59:41 -0400 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)