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Date:      Thu, 21 Nov 2002 11:35:31 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: docs/44435: sysctl manpage: add example for tcsh
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20021121113512.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200211211140.gALBe3j9068591@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On 21-Nov-2002 Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR docs/44435; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
> To: Slaven Rezic <slaven.rezic@berlin.de>
> Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: docs/44435: sysctl manpage: add example for tcsh
> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 13:31:10 +0200
> 
>  On 2002-11-21 01:40, Slaven Rezic <slaven.rezic@berlin.de> wrote:
>  >Slaven Rezic <slaven.rezic@berlin.de> wrote:
>  >>Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> writes:
>  >>> The suggested command doesn't work on the tcsh prompt for me, but it
>  >>> does work if put it in my .tcshrc file.
>  >>
>  >>Strange, the example works for me in the command line.
>  
>  Pilot error.  I moved my .tcshrc and .cshrc out of the way and it
>  works for me too.  Your diff looks fine, sorry 'bout the confusion :/

Hmm, I use "sysctl  'p/*/`sysctl -aN`/'".  See the tcsh manpage for the
difference between 'n' and 'p' style completions:

                   n   Next-word completion.  pattern is a glob-pattern  which
                       must  match  the  beginning of the previous word on the
                       command line.
                   p   Position-dependent  completion.   pattern  is a numeric
                       range, with the same syntax used to index  shell  vari-
                       ables, which must include the current word.

Most of the examples tend to use 'p' in the manpage for these types
of completions.  However, I don't think that shell completion hints
for different commands belong in man pages.  I think sticking completions
for FreeBSD commands /usr/share/examples/<my favorite shell>/completions
is a better approach.

-- 

John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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