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Date:      Fri, 19 Apr 2002 11:41:14 +1000
From:      Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To:        FreeBSD Questions LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org>
Subject:   Re: tcsh [TAB] ; man someth-[TAB]?
Message-ID:  <20020419114114.P56548@k7.mavetju.org>
In-Reply-To: <200204182011.45710.weaver@earthcorp.com>; from weaver@earthcorp.com on Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 08:11:45PM -0500
References:  <20020418180024.D291-100000@66-75-1-142.san.rr.com> <200204182011.45710.weaver@earthcorp.com>

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On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 08:11:45PM -0500, Julian Peterson wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 8:02 pm, Peter Leftwich wrote:
> > Is it possible under tcsh (or any shell) to configure the "man" command
> > line command so that the user can type:
> >
> > prompt$ man shutd[TAB]
> >
> > And have the shell display commands either in ones ${PATH} statement or
> > that have manpages on the system?  Shweetniss.
> 
> Yes.
> 
> add to your .tcshrc file: 
> complete man 'p/*/c/'
> 
> It's documented in the tcsh(1) man page FYI.

What I wonder (after trying man asprin* to test this) is how safe
this is regarding wildcard-expansion: 

[~] edwin@k7>man a*
No manual entry for adminspotting.png
No manual entry for adstr.zip
No manual entry for allegro-4.0.0
No manual entry for allegro-4.0.0.tar.gz
No manual entry for apache_1.3.20

:-/

Edwin

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