On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 08:30:52PM +1000, Warren wrote:What is need for me to add/do in order for the pressing of Tab to autcomplete a name to work? It works fine in root .. also when i press the up or down arrow keys it dosent bring up the previous command issued ...
im using FreeBSD5.3-STABLE
What shell are you using? I guess you haven't installed any shells from ports yet, and are using the system default, /bin/sh, which doesn't support autocomplete or command history.
It does support command history and editing, though not auto-complete.
''set -E'' or ''set -V'' at the prompt (or put either - they are mutually exclusive - in ~/.profile) will enable command history with
Emacs or vi style command editing respectively.
Regards,
Mark
The root shell is csh, which does have such things. So, either set your user's shell to be /bin/tcsh, or install one of the several shells in ports.
HTH
Dan
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