Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!occrsh!uokmax!jkmedcal
From: jkmedcal@uokmax.UUCP (Jeff K Medcalf)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Neat csh feature
Keywords: Pulled from comp.unix.wizards
Message-ID: <3574@uokmax.UUCP>
Date: 1 Aug 89 20:14:51 GMT
References: <62079@linus.UUCP>
Reply-To: jkmedcal@uokmax.UUCP (Jeff K Medcalf)
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In article <62079@linus.UUCP> rtidd@mitre.arpa writes:
>If you set the environment variable filec (as in set filec), that
>allows csh to do file completion, kind of like emacs does. If you're
>typing in a file name, just type enough characters to make it unique
>then hit <ESC> and the shell will finish it for you. For example,
>--------------------------------------
>Randy Tidd                   MITRE-McLean CCEL Lab

This is both true and elegant.  However, cat v* will do the same thing.
(the example was a directory
a	b	c	d	very_long_file_name
on which cat v<ESC> is the same as cat very_long_file_name)

I don't think that there is much of a difference in time to execute, either.
The shell may expand with some wierdness under some circumstances, though.


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