Re: [9fans] what features would you like in a shell?

["André Günther" <Andre.G@gmx.de>]

Just Ctrl+F and you have completion for the current dir. I think it's
a pretty easy hack to extend this to /bin

On 31 Mar 2009, at 18:14, rapogue@catt.com wrote:

> I'd love to see tab completion at the command line. If there is a
> way to do it in Plan 9, then I haven't figured it out yet. But then
> I'm a newby to the OS.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: noagbodjivictor <noagbodjivictor@gmail.com>
> To: 9fans@9fans.net
> Sent: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
> Subject: [9fans] what features would you like in a shell?
>
> hello,
>
> I'm a undergrade CS student doing a project for my introductory
> operating systems class. my team wants to write a simple shell from
> scratch.
>
> one idea we have found so far is the following. the shell will record
> all the programs it has run. whenever a program goes awry and is
> killed by the kernel. the shell will reload it.
>
> what do you think of it?
>
> also, we know there are many many shells out there. and our professor
> would not like us to write from scratch. we wanted because it provides
> much exercise. but we certainly don't know about all the shells out
> there.
>
> so I'm writing to get your opinions. maybe there are thing that people
> implement themselves but want included in the shell itself? or just
> something they want implemented?
>
> thanks a lot in advance for your help.
>
>
>