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Date:      Sun, 20 May 2001 00:09:47 +0200
From:      Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
To:        "Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@storm.ca>
Cc:        FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: file completion
Message-ID:  <20010520000947.B60427@rapier.smartspace.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <20010519180703.Q21410@storm.ca>; from msoulier@storm.ca on Sat, May 19, 2001 at 06:07:03PM -0400
References:  <20010519171449.P21410@storm.ca> <20010519232145.A16105@student.uu.se> <20010519180703.Q21410@storm.ca>

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On Sat 2001-05-19 (18:07), Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 11:21:45PM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> > 
> > /bin/sh doesn't have support for filename completion AFAIK.
> > If you want that you can always use csh (actually tcsh) which is
> > included in the base system or you can install some other shell which
> > supports it, like bash or zsh, from the ports collection.
> 
>     Yeah, I think it would be bash, considering Tom Christiansen's paper on
> the evils of csh. ;-)

That centred around programming in it, not interactive use, iirc.

Neil (an avid tcsh and zsh user)
-- 
Neil Blakey-Milner
nbm@mithrandr.moria.org

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