Re: What program let you finish typing a file name when you hit ESC.

2003-07-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > What program let you finish typing a file name when you hit ESC? The shell tcsh does this, except that it uses TAB instead of ESC. I think that is safer. Probably some other more modern shells also do something like this. Just type /bin/tcsh (or /usr/local/bin/tcsh - depending on which

Re: What program let you finish typing a file name when you hit ESC.

2003-07-07 Thread rcooley
Heh... The version of PDKSH in the FreeBSD ports does that. I found it rather annoying that (for some reason) tab completion didn't work, but ESC completion did. To set the options for PDKSH, or most any other shell, look at the output of "set -o". DanB wrote: What program let you finish typ

Re: What program let you finish typing a file name when you hit ESC.

2003-07-07 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 08), parv said: > in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote DanB thusly... > > > > What program let you finish typing a file name when you hit ESC? > > A shell. At least bash2 & ksh93 can, depending upon configuration. Most newer shells use TAB instead of ESC, because ESC al

Re: What program let you finish typing a file name when you hit ESC.

2003-07-07 Thread parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote DanB thusly... > > What program let you finish typing a file name when you hit ESC? A shell. At least bash2 & ksh93 can, depending upon configuration. - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.