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From: chet@mandrill.CWRU.Edu (Chet Ramey)
Newsgroups: comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: What should completion look like on Unix?
Message-ID: <2335@mandrill.CWRU.Edu>
Date: 21 Dec 87 14:01:38 GMT
References: <1971@cup.portal.com> <1169@nmtsun.nmt.edu> <588@kuling.UUCP> <871@rocky.STANFORD.EDU> <476@athos.rutgers.edu>
Reply-To: chet@mandrill.CWRU.Edu (Chet Ramey)
Organization: CWRU Dept. of Computer Engineering, Cleveland OH
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Keywords: 4.3 tcsh, filename completion
Summary: Our tcsh uses TAB for filename completion

In article <476@athos.rutgers.edu> hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) writes:
>1) provide a subroutine for parsing file names that is consistent with
>(probably stolen from) tcsh/4.3csh.  It would understand ~, and do
>completion and listing (i.e. ESC and ^D from tcsh). 

>Lock the
>people responsible for tcsh and Gnu emacs in a closet and don't let
>them out until they agree on a single character to use for file name
>completion (tcsh uses ESC, Emacs uses TAB).

I don't know whether it's "standard" tcsh (I didn't set it up here), but
the version we have running on mandrill (VAX-11/780, 4.3 BSD) uses TAB
for filename completion.  The man page is consistent with this usage.  Is
this the norm?

Chet Ramey    chet@mandrill.CWRU.Edu      {cbosgd,decvax,sun}!mandrill!chet

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