sridhar@usceast.UUCP (M. A. Sridhar) (08/24/89)
The manual for SR10.1 says that the C shell completes filenames (a la BSD4.3) if you set the filec variable. I tried it, but it doesn't work under DM. Could anyone tell me why? If it matters, I'm running Domain with the "medium" version of BSD4.3 on a DN3000. -- M. A. Sridhar | Department of Computer Science | ncr-sd!ncrcae ! usceast!sridhar (USENET) University of South Carolina | sridhar@cs.scarolina.edu (CSNET) Columbia, SC 29208 | (803) 777-2427 (Ma Bell)
nazgul@apollo.HP.COM (Kee Hinckley) (08/29/89)
In article <2895@usceast.UUCP> sridhar@usceast.uucp.UUCP (M. A. Sridhar) writes: >The manual for SR10.1 says that the C shell completes filenames (a la BSD4.3) >if you set the filec variable. I tried it, but it doesn't work under >DM. Could anyone tell me why? If it matters, I'm running Domain with the >"medium" version of BSD4.3 on a DN3000. Because pads are not really terminals and don't support traditional terminal escape sequences. Think of pads and read-only or read-write editors and the system makes more sense. If you run the Cshell in a vt100 emulator or an xterm file completion should work fine. Obscure note. It actually is possible to write a keydef (with side program) that does command completion. It grabs the text behind the cursor, and cp's a program with that as an argument. The program then inserts the remaining characters. Mind you I said "possible", not "desirable"! :-) -kee -- ### User Environment, Apollo Computer Inc. ### Public Access ProLine BBS ### ### {mit-eddie,yale}!apollo!nazgul ### nazgul@pro-angmar.cts.com ### ### nazgul@apollo.com ### (617) 641-3722 300/1200/2400 ### I'm not sure which upsets me more; that people are so unwilling to accept responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate everyone else's.