Autocomplete in CSH

[atwinix]

Hello All,

For some reason when I press the tab key, it does not auto-complete the command I am entering.

Say for example I have directories lab1,lab2,lab3 in /home/user/. When I start typing "cd /ho .." it will not auto-complete it to "/home/" and so on.

I am using CSH. How can I enable that feature?


Thanking you all for your time and help,

atwinix

 

[darkshadow]

hi

I think you should see this http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-January/072476.html , it better to use zsh it very user friendly and have a wizard to initialize its setting i think you should try it

 

[kisscool-fr]

If you enter [CMD=""]set filec[/CMD] when you're logged in, does the autocompletion work ?

Do you have it in your .cshrc ?

 

[crsd]

set autolist = ambiguous
set complete = enhance

csh(1)

 

[SirDice]

Use tcsh instead of csh. IIRC tcsh has a few options turned on by default whereas csh doesn't.

 

[lme@]

In FreeBSD csh is only a hardlink to tcsh:

-r-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  361912  7 Jan 18:53 /bin/csh*
-r-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  361912  7 Jan 18:53 /bin/tcsh*

 

[SirDice]

In FreeBSD csh is only a hardlink to tcsh:

Correct but it's behavior is dependent on which you actually run.