Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 23:55:12 +1000 From: "Haikal Saadh" <wyldephyre2@yahoo.com> To: "Russell Francis" <frussell@p1.cs.ohiou.edu>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: Program recommendations Message-ID: <PAELLGOEIMDLEJNEBOBOCEPACDAA.wyldephyre2@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.1010720214338.5753A-100000@p1>
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> > On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 jeff@tsunamicreek.com wrote: > > > > Shell > > > > bash or tsch shell, matter of opinion. > > A handy feature is the [TAB] auto completion of filenames. > I know bash has this, not sure of tsch??? tcsh has tab completion, and also, a few good points of tcsh: + if you half-complete a command, and press CTRL-D, you get a list of possible options. + if you half complete a command, and press the up arrow, it completes the command from history. I ditched bash in favour of tcsh when it became the default shell for FreeBSD, and I've never looked back! :) > > > Text editor > > > > vi or emacs, matter of opinion. > > Vi is a great editor. It is standard on almost any UNIX > machine so your skills can be portable :-) If you do > decide to go with a vi style editor, I recommend using > something like vim or gvim as it has alot of nice extras > that make serious editing easier. Agreed. I have a bit of trouble with vi, but can handle [g]vim just fine. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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