Freebsd 4.8 Command to finish typing

[Paul Murphy]

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 08:54:58 -0400
Robert Huff <roberthuff at rcn.com> wrote:

> 
> Ruben de Groot writes:
> 
> >  > How do you have Freebsd 4.8 finish typing a line? On older
> >  > version I just type Ma and escape to finish typing Make.
> >  
> >  That depends on your shell. You're probably used to a
> >  bourne-shell variant like ksh, where <ESC> is used for word
> >  completion. In csh, use the <TAB> key.
> 
> 	And note this is not "line completion" but file name completion
> - it will fill in as much as uniquely possible of the path starting
> with what you have already typed. 
> 
> 
> 					Robert Huff

 If the command is in your history, arrow-up does "line completion"
(csh).

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