Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 11:41:14 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: FreeBSD Questions LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org> Subject: Re: tcsh [TAB] ; man someth-[TAB]? Message-ID: <20020419114114.P56548@k7.mavetju.org> In-Reply-To: <200204182011.45710.weaver@earthcorp.com>; from weaver@earthcorp.com on Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 08:11:45PM -0500 References: <20020418180024.D291-100000@66-75-1-142.san.rr.com> <200204182011.45710.weaver@earthcorp.com>
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On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 08:11:45PM -0500, Julian Peterson wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 8:02 pm, Peter Leftwich wrote:
> > Is it possible under tcsh (or any shell) to configure the "man" command
> > line command so that the user can type:
> >
> > prompt$ man shutd[TAB]
> >
> > And have the shell display commands either in ones ${PATH} statement or
> > that have manpages on the system? Shweetniss.
>
> Yes.
>
> add to your .tcshrc file:
> complete man 'p/*/c/'
>
> It's documented in the tcsh(1) man page FYI.
What I wonder (after trying man asprin* to test this) is how safe
this is regarding wildcard-expansion:
[~] edwin@k7>man a*
No manual entry for adminspotting.png
No manual entry for adstr.zip
No manual entry for allegro-4.0.0
No manual entry for allegro-4.0.0.tar.gz
No manual entry for apache_1.3.20
:-/
Edwin
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