Command ($ or #) line; smart completion?

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Nov 28 21:02:19 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 14:28, Nat Gross wrote:

> Back in the days of MS-DOA (um, msdos), I had a little tsr (forgot
> about *that* tla) called 4DOS that enhanced the command line
> experience. The more I work at the linux command line, the more I miss
> some basic functions. Ok, we have scroll back history, but how about:
> 
> 1. Typing a partial command that exists in history, hit <F8>, and the
> command either gets completed (if unique string), or a little menu is
> presented.

Hit control-R for an emacs-like incremental-search through history.
There's a way to switch to vi-style but when I tried it long ago
it lost the up/down arrow scroll through history.  Does anyone
know if that is fixed now?


> 2. Any command that involves a file or directory (in the current dir)
> can have the file/dir name auto-entered also via
> 'partial-string+function key'.

Hit <tab> to have the command line auto-filled, or just use a wildcard
in the command if you don't need to see it first.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com





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