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- From: yeates@rtsg.mot.com (Tony J Yeates)
- Subject: Re: tcsh in the future - what should it be like?
- Message-ID: <yeates.711917978@beryl17>
- Keywords: tcsh
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- Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
- References: <yeates.711122638@beryl17> <1992Jul16.153506.24366@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
- Distribution: comp.unix.shell
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 18:59:38 GMT
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- sjane@bmers248.bnr.ca (sjs) writes:
-
- >In article <yeates.711122638@beryl17> yeates@rtsg.mot.com (Tony J Yeates) writes:
- I have only one suggestion
- >>for improvement in this area - command line completion using the command history list
- >>(as well as the "by filename completion feature" - which is great), as 4DOS has.
- >>e.g. type "vi " then hit a "choosen key" (up arrow is already taken) to scroll thro'
- >>(only) the previous vi commands.
-
- >This function is already available. It is called history-search-backward.
- >You can bind it to a function key as I have bound it to F7 on my Sun:
-
- >bindkey ^[[230z history-search-backward
-
- >History-search-forward is also available in case you go too far too fast
- >with history-search-backward.
-
- Somebody else suggested using:-
- bindkey "^[[A" history-search-backward
-
- ... which worked on my Sun. Excellent, tcsh is now complete (almost!).
-
- >====================================================================
- >I'd also like the file completion to select one of completions if there
- >are many instead of just beeping at me. And then if I hit the tab key
- >again, it should select another possible completion.. just like the PC.
-
- I would second this suggestion. Perhaps something like the way
- <TAB> and <space> can be used to select groups (G) when using nn.
-
-