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From: esj@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Eric S. Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: What should completion look like on Unix?
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Date: 23 Dec 87 01:55:22 GMT
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Keywords: 4.3 tcsh, filename completion

In article <2335@mandrill.CWRU.Edu> chet@mandrill.CWRU.Edu (Chet Ramey) writes:
>
>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
>

Well, one thing I love about tcsh(and emacs for that matter) is that 
you can rebind filename completion (and just about every other 
"special" key) to be what you want. I dont even remember what 
the default filename completion key is, and I did set up tcsh 
here. 

Consistancy is easy. 



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