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From: jw@sics.se (Johan Widen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Planning for Shell 20.8M
Message-ID: <1698@sics.se>
Date: 25 Jan 88 14:07:47 GMT
References: <8801221705.AA20640@decwrl.dec.com>
Reply-To: jw@sics.se (Johan Widen)
Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
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In article <8801221705.AA20640@decwrl.dec.com> drew@cgofs.dec.com (Steve Drew) writes:
>	What I would like include in version 2.08M:
...
>        Anymore reasonable suggestions welcome.

One feature that I would like to see is file name completion:
	You type part of a file name. If you then hit the "completion key"
	the shell will try to complete the file name for you.

This feature is available in GNU Emacs, in tcsh and in csh (under 4.3BSD).

This might be a bit slow in a large directory on a disk but should work well
in a small directory or on a ram disk.

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