From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <4FB4BD86-9112-44B2-A2B2-CFE1CE407D95@gmx.de> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9_G=FCnther?= To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <2047553083.376861238516093038.JavaMail.root@joey.catt.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:19:26 +0200 References: <2047553083.376861238516093038.JavaMail.root@joey.catt.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] what features would you like in a shell? Topicbox-Message-UUID: ce6dee48-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 > 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. > > >