Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!prcrs!paul
From: paul@prcrs.UUCP (Paul Hite)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: ULTRIX 3.0 - /usr/new/csh question
Keywords: file name completion, filec
Message-ID: <1306@prcrs.UUCP>
Date: 5 Feb 89 17:55:16 GMT
References: <6295@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <1304@prcrs.UUCP> <2885@sybase.sybase.com>
Organization: PRC Realty Systems, McLean, VA
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In article <2885@sybase.sybase.com>, robert@jive.sybase.com (Robert Garvey) writes:
> What's the command line edit capability of the ULTRIX csh?

They mean the ^D and ESC stuff that we've been discussing.  I first became
aware of these features on HP-UX.  When I moved to Ultrix, I found newcsh
which also had them and began using it.  I never looked for the Ultrix
documentation.  Well, I just found it (in /usr/new/doc/newcsh.1).

I already discussed using ^D and ESC for commands and filenames in my
previous article.  I just discovered that this also works for history
and variables.  So "!maESC" might expand to !mail and "echo $autoESC" might
expand to echo $autologout.  Again ^D will show any choices you have.
(This variable and history stuff does *not* work on HP-UX.)

The new csh has a few other features not present in csh, but they're not
command editing stuff.

Paul Hite   PRC Realty Systems  McLean,Va   uunet!prcrs!paul    (703) 556-2243
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