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Date:      Tue, 18 Jan 2005 10:55:15 +0000
From:      Daniel Bye <freebsd-questions@slightlystrange.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Tab to Auto-Complete + ....
Message-ID:  <20050118105515.GA75927@catflap.slightlystrange.org>
In-Reply-To: <200501182030.52598.shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com>
References:  <200501182030.52598.shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com>

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On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 08:30:52PM +1000, Warren wrote:
> What is need for me to add/do in order for the pressing of Tab to autcomp=
lete=20
> a name to work?  It works fine in root .. also when i press the up or dow=
n=20
> arrow keys it dosent bring up the previous command issued ...=20
>=20
> im using FreeBSD5.3-STABLE

What shell are you using?  I guess you haven't installed any shells from
ports yet, and are using the system default, /bin/sh, which doesn't
support autocomplete or command history.  The root shell is csh, which
does have such things.  So, either set your user's shell to be
/bin/tcsh, or install one of the several shells in ports.

HTH

Dan

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