Re: [tcsh] disabling autologout?
On Mon, Apr 20, 1998 at 09:01:17PM -0700, Joel Klecker wrote:
> At 12:17 -0400 1998-04-20, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> >$ cd [tab]
> > -> shows and completes to directory names only
> >$ latex [tab]
> > -> shows and completes to .tex files only
> >$ emacs -[tab]
> > -> shows and completes to available options for that command.
> >
> >Who would want to live without it?
> >Can bash be taught to do this? It would be great.
>
> bash can't, but zsh (a bourne shell derivative like bash) has programmable
> completion that is even more powerful than what tcsh has.
bash can't do it yet (as of version 2.01.1 or 2.02); however, according to
to their recent posting on comp.os.linux.announce:
A Peek at the Future
========================
Things under consideration for bash-2.03 (or whatever the next version
is named) are
o An implementation of programmable completion for the bash
readline interface
So, there is hope yet! ;-)
Anthony
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