From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3C4BEBD7.84085768@strakt.com> From: Boyd Roberts MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Getting started in Plan9 - help References: <000e01c1a1ed$88a01c40$58a709ca@rosh> <20020120210140.349ee688.matt@proweb.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 11:22:15 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3f7a03f2-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Matt H wrote: > > - Why doesnt/Can rc have autocomplete and filename completion as in > > bash ? This has become so neccessary. > yes, well, you see plan9 is more mouse driven. eventually you'll probably end up with Acme as much your "shell" as anything, and you'll find auto complete is unneccessary. > But you're right, it is a nice feature of the bash shell but then there are soooo many goddam directories on a Linux/FreeBSD box and auto complete is Bash's way of trying to alleviate the pain. If you miss it too much I'm sure you could just write a shell script to monitor /dev/cons for tabs, and echo the stuff into /dev/cons. > Personally, I do prefer having the screen as free form is plan9's is. The shell is more than the commands you can type, it's where you can type them. I remember the major flamewar over whether Byron's unix implementation of rc should do this; I was in the 'no way' camp. The result was that you could conditionally compile in that readline trash. You could probably pick it out and stick into Plan 9's rc if you wanted to, but Plan 9 is not unix. It has much better ways to do things. I guess another way to do it is to use pipefile. One of the Kenji's (iirc) did this for japanese input -- now there's a problem for you. As for Latin-1: "Fco. J. Ballesteros" has volunteered to clean up what I did late last year (I'm too busy). If anyone wants it I'll send it on or put it on a web page somewhere. I think the only problem is the caps-lock/ctrl key swap.