From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 6 08:06:18 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 97A2516A4CF for ; Fri, 6 May 2005 08:06:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from orb.pobox.com (orb.pobox.com [207.8.226.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A16043D8D for ; Fri, 6 May 2005 08:06:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from discussion-lists@linnet.org) Received: from orb (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orb.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 455CCA1E; Fri, 6 May 2005 04:06:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from billdog.local.linnet.org (dsl-212-74-113-65.access.uk.tiscali.com [212.74.113.65]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by orb.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0862A8E; Fri, 6 May 2005 04:06:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists by billdog.local.linnet.org with local (Exim 4.43 (FreeBSD)) id 1DTxsW-0000G1-SZ; Fri, 06 May 2005 09:08:08 +0100 Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 09:08:08 +0100 From: Brian Candler To: Andrew Gallatin Message-ID: <20050506080808.GA967@uk.tiscali.com> References: <20050504150209.GA2516@uk.tiscali.com> <200505041646.j44GkKXw037042@fire.jhs.private> <20050504170737.GA15091@uk.tiscali.com> <17018.7931.658513.492252@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <17018.7931.658513.492252@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org 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: Fri, 06 May 2005 08:06:18 -0000 On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 09:26:19AM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > In tcsh, hitting a tab once or 2 times results in the same thing -- > filling in the path until there are multiple choices. So that > second, accidental tab is harmless. > > But in bash, that second, accidental tab results in a long pause while > the shell lists all the different choices for the completion of > the path. Which I don't want to wait for. > > If I could make bash's completion act like tcsh completion (^D rather > than tab-tab), I'd probably use it. >From bash(1): show-all-if-ambiguous (Off) This alters the default behavior of the completion functions. If set to on, words which have more than one possible completion cause the matches to be listed immediately instead of ringing the bell. Is that what you mean? Regards, Brian.