File completion in csh
John Biggs
armltd!jbiggs at relay.eu.net
Wed Apr 3 01:00:00 AEST 1991
tml at goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Timothy Liddelow) writes:
>Why is it that on my distributed SPARC system that when file completion in
>csh is set, it doesn't work properly ? If escape is pressed on the
>command line, the command is simply not recognised. This only happens on
>the client machine, not the server. As the file completion must obviously
>read the current directory, could that be the problem that my machine has
>to read the remote disk ?
I too have found that filec does not work in a cmdtool (which uses the
sun-cmd termcap entry). It appears that whilst pressing ESC does actually
perform the file completion it also has a similar effect to pressing ^U as
the command line is nullified but not erased from the screen. This can be
proved by having a look at the command history which shows now record of
the command being typed. What I have discovered is that rlogging into
your own machine does in fact cure the problem and filec works perfectly,
although I am still using the same sun-cmd termcap entry. So what
difference does it make rlogging into your own machine?
--John Biggs (jbiggs at armltd.uucp)
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