From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Apr 18 4: 5:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6099437B9A3 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 04:05:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA21629 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 13:05:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id NAA00909 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 13:05:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: from leela.cs.purdue.edu (leela.cs.purdue.edu [128.10.2.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1F63737B923 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 04:04:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from splite@leela.cs.purdue.edu) Received: (qmail 4103 invoked by uid 118); 18 Apr 2000 11:05:38 -0000 Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 06:05:38 -0500 From: splite@purdue.edu To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/tcsh - Imported sources Message-ID: <20000418060538.A4058@leela.cs.purdue.edu> References: <20000416185507.B43688@linkfast.net> <200004180001.RAA28074@bubba.whistle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <200004180001.RAA28074@bubba.whistle.com>; from archie@whistle.com on Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 05:01:04PM -0700 X-Disclaimer: Any similarity to an opinion of Purdue is purely coincidental Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Cc:'s trimmed] On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 05:01:04PM -0700, Archie Cobbs wrote: > Matthew Fuller writes: > > I think the point is a far bigger portions of users are surprised by how > > unfriendly and useless the root shell is. 'What, I don't have tab > > completion?' 'What, I don't have command history and > > editing?' etc. > > What do people think of adding this to the default .cshrc > > bindkey ^W backward-delete-word > > This makes input more consistent with the standard tty driver. > Instead of deleting the entire line, ^W just deletes the previous word. > I always end up having to do this. I found tcsh reasonably compatible with my csh fingers after adding these to my .cshrc: bindkey ^[ complete-word bindkey ^W backward-delete-word unset addsuffix unset autologout Though I imagine the first one will cause the tcsh users to cry foul, it would help satisfy POLA. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message