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From: Chris F.A. Johnson on 17 Jun 2008 15:12
On 2008-06-16, Teddy wrote:
>
> I am using C shell as interactive shell because its filename
> completion feature is more easy.

I'm curious: what part of C-shell completion is easier than that
found in bash?

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From: Kenny McCormack on 17 Jun 2008 15:50
In article <794e2$48580cb5$cef88ba3$28551(a)TEKSAVVY.COM>,
Chris F.A. Johnson <cfajohnson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>On 2008-06-16, Teddy wrote:
>>
>> I am using C shell as interactive shell because its filename
>> completion feature is more easy.
>
> I'm curious: what part of C-shell completion is easier than that
> found in bash?

All of it.

From: Chris F.A. Johnson on 17 Jun 2008 17:45
On 2008-06-17, Kenny McCormack wrote:
> In article <794e2$48580cb5$cef88ba3$28551(a)TEKSAVVY.COM>,
> Chris F.A. Johnson <cfajohnson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>On 2008-06-16, Teddy wrote:
>>>
>>> I am using C shell as interactive shell because its filename
>>> completion feature is more easy.
>>
>> I'm curious: what part of C-shell completion is easier than that
>> found in bash?
>
> All of it.

Can you be more specific? What can be easier than pressing TAB?

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From: Jazzman on 4 Jul 2008 02:39
Chris F.A. Johnson <cfajohnson(a)gmail.com> dixit:

> Can you be more specific? What can be easier than pressing TAB?


For example, having the shell present you only with directories if you
type 'cd ' and then press tab. I would call it "smarter" rather than
"easier", though.


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From: Frank Terbeck on 5 Jul 2008 06:06
Chris F.A. Johnson <cfajohnson(a)gmail.com>:
> On 2008-07-04, Jazzman wrote:
> > Chris F.A. Johnson <cfajohnson(a)gmail.com> dixit:
> >
> >> Can you be more specific? What can be easier than pressing TAB?
> >
> > For example, having the shell present you only with directories if you
> > type 'cd ' and then press tab. I would call it "smarter" rather than
> > "easier", though.
>
> Bash has programmable completion to do that and much more.


And if that is not enough, there is always zsh for the rescue. :-)

Regards, Frank

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