Neat csh feature

[Guangliang He]

In article <3574 at uokmax.UUCP> jkmedcal at uokmax.UUCP (Jeff K Medcalf) writes:
=In article <62079 at linus.UUCP> rtidd at mitre.arpa writes:
=>If you set the environment variable filec (as in set filec), that
=>allows csh to do file completion, kind of like emacs does. If you're
=>typing in a file name, just type enough characters to make it unique
=>then hit <ESC> and the shell will finish it for you. For example,
=>--------------------------------------
=>Randy Tidd                   MITRE-McLean CCEL Lab
=
=This is both true and elegant.  However, cat v* will do the same thing.
=(the example was a directory
=a	b	c	d	very_long_file_name
=on which cat v<ESC> is the same as cat very_long_file_name)
=
=I don't think that there is much of a difference in time to execute, either.
=The shell may expand with some wierdness under some circumstances, though.
=
=
=fodder

The trick is real neat but only on BSD systems. SYS V doesn't have file name
completion no matter you set filec or not. It's kind of consistensy because
SYS V doesn't allow very_long_file_name, maximam length of file name is 14
charecters.


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