Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 22:51:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> To: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> Cc: Julian Peterson <weaver@earthcorp.com>, FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org> Subject: Re: tcsh [TAB] ; man someth-[TAB]? [ctrl-d?] Message-ID: <20020418224606.B200-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> In-Reply-To: <20020419122414.D56598@k7.mavetju.org>
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On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 09:06:01PM -0500, Julian Peterson wrote:
> > That's not what it's designed for. man a* is going to expand to: man <everything in the current dir starting with an a> Thats just the shells globbing in action. With the complete stuff, you type "man a<tab>" and it will complete as much as it can. Typing "man shut<tab>" will expand to "man shutdown" (assuming no other man pages have the prefix "shut")
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> > You can type "man a<ctrl-d>" and it will list all possible completions (ie all man pages starting with an "a")
> Aha, I see now how it works. Nifty feature :-) -Edwin
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I have often wondered and worried about this "<ctrl-d>" simulation of the
tcsh's [TAB] functionality -- is not there a risk of hitting "ctrl-d" and
having your login exit??
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