Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 17:17:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org> To: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Import of tcsh into src/contrib/, replacing src/usr.bin/csh Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004061716180.38185-100000@dt051n0b.san.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004061955350.50194-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
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On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, David O'Brien wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 06:15:48PM -0400, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:
> > > What is stopping you from adding libedit support to /bin/csh in the same
> > > way it was added to /bin/sh?
> >
> > I deemed importing Tcsh easier than hacking on csh. Plus Tcsh is
> > maintained. We don't really have a csh maintainer. Also libedit doesn't
> > do command line completion.
>
> Why can't it do command line completion?
>
> el_set(e, EL_ADDFN, ...) is the hook you would use to do command line
> completion. I'm not sure what the problem is here.
How hard would that be to put into our Bourne shell? Point me at
where to look if you don't mind, I'm looking for a C project to go next on
my list.
Doug
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