Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 11:52:16 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tab to Auto-Complete + .... Message-ID: <41ECF870.3070400@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20050118105515.GA75927@catflap.slightlystrange.org> References: <200501182030.52598.shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com> <20050118105515.GA75927@catflap.slightlystrange.org>
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Daniel Bye wrote: > 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 >> autcomplete a name to work? It works fine in root .. also when i >> press the up or down arrow keys it dosent bring up the previous >> command issued ... >> >> 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. It does support command history and editing, though not auto-complete. ''set -E'' or ''set -V'' at the prompt (or put either - they are mutually exclusive - in ~/.profile) will enable command history with Emacs or vi style command editing respectively. Regards, Mark > 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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