Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!quintus!pds
From: pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Planning for Shell 20.8M
Message-ID: <621@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
Date: 4 Feb 88 19:12:59 GMT
References: <8801221705.AA20640@decwrl.dec.com> <1698@sics.se>
Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA
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Summary: file name completion is certainly nice

In article <1698@sics.se>, jw@sics.se (Johan Widen) writes:
> >	What I would like include in version 2.08M:
> 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.

Amen.  I use filename completion all the time under Unix, and would love
to have it on my Amiga.

Two other things:  It would be nice if you could catch ^C,D, etc.  I
sometimes hit this accidentally, and get bounced out of the shell
altogether.  Since there's another way to get out, it would be nice if
this didn't bounce you.  (I'm using an older version of the shell, so
maybe this is already fixed.)  Also it would be nice if I could bind
my own control characters to edit as I like.  It's hard for me to
remember the shell's control codes, since I'm an emacs user.  To me, ^A
means beginning-of-line, and ^D means delete-next-character (which is
why I keep bouncing myself out of the shell).  I'd modify the sources,
but I don't have Aztec C, just Lattice.

And thanks, Steve and Matt, for a shell well done!

-- 
-Peter Schachte
pds@quintus.uucp
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