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To:	Decklin Foster <fosterd@hartwick.edu>
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Decklin Foster wrote:

>
> I know i probably ought to be quiet and retrain my fingers, but old
> habits die hard. if i can't patch rc for this, how can i set up
> readline to get along with it? my problem is that readline will do tab
> completion on ~/wwwd<TAB> if i have a directory in my home called
> wwwdocs. but it *won't* do anything with $home/wwwd<TAB>, presumably
> since rc is not telling it what's in $home. i note that if I use bash,
> $HOME/wwwd<TAB> magically becomes '/home/decklin/wwwdocs/'. bash must
> know how interact a little more closley with readline. While this sort
> of sets off my bloat detector, it's better than typing a ~, doing tab
> completion, and then going back and changing it to $home.
>

Just this week I noted on Freshmeat a pgm Cle (Command Line Editor)
that claims it 'provides the editing/history/completion commands of
the readline package to any line-oriented Unix command.'

Latest version (FWiW):

    ftp://kaolin.unice.fr/pub/Cle

Maybe it'll help some (?).

 - kim