Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!samsung!umich!caen!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!udel!haven.umd.edu!mimsy!midway!msuinfo!kira.egr.msu.edu!elliss From: elliss@kira.egr.msu.edu (Stew Ellis) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: tenex-style command editing in a Unix shell? Message-ID: <1991Apr25.143431.23653@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Date: 25 Apr 91 14:34:31 GMT References: <24410@well.sf.ca.us> Sender: news@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu Organization: Michigan State University Lines: 36 jef@well.sf.ca.us (Jef Poskanzer) writes: >All these different shells, tcsh, ksh, bash, zsh, but do any of them >implement tenex-style command completion and prompting, the most perfect >command-line interface ever devised? I admit it would be a little weird >trying to fit it into Unix, since the commands are so numerous and free-form, >but I can think of a couple ways to do it. >--- >Jef > Jef Poskanzer jef@well.sf.ca.us {apple, ucbvax, hplabs}!well!jef > "To downgrade the human mind is bad theology." -- C. K. Chesterton I assume by "tenex-style" you mean using the spacebar and ?. I have not found any like that. I would really like that as well. The closest I have found so far is tcsh, which completes commands or filenames using the tab key. I believe some of the others may have a similar capability. tcsh may also be able to prompt with possible completions. For filenames late versions of ksh will list possible completions in response to ESC= i believe. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _________________________________ R.Stewart (Stew) Ellis / _______________________________/ Assoc. Prof. of Social Science / / ______ ____________ __ Dept. of Humanities & Social Science / / /___ / / ___ ___ / / / 1700 W. Third Avenue / / / / / / / / / / / / Flint, MI 48504 / /__________/ / / / / / / / / / 313-762-9765 Office /______________/ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_/ elliss@frith.egr.msu.edu ENGINEERING & MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE "Apple Macintosh, the closed system for people with supposedly open minds." - plagiarized from someone else on the net "How you gonna do it? OS/2 it!" - stupid IBM ad "Have you ever heard anything so half-OSsed?" - me