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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Filename completion in Apollo's C shell
Message-ID: <1990Nov28.081721.971@alphalpha.com>
Date: 28 Nov 90 08:17:21 GMT
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In article <4e42a679.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> smv@apollo.HP.COM (Steve Valentine) writes:
>Filename completion does not work in a pad, and we have no plans to change this.

Actually, if you think about it you can make it work.  It involves
writing a small program which sends some DM commands to cut the
token before the cursor.  It then takes that, does the expansion
and then puts it back into a paste buffer.  Then it pastes the
contents of of the buffer back into the input pad.  Unfortunately
the process is a little slow (or rather it was slow back when I
wrote one on my DN400).  It might be usable nowadays.  It has one
real nice advantage in that it works anywhere, not just in a particular
shell.  You're on your own for writing it though, I've long since lost
the source.
					-kee

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