tab completion

[Ben Munat]

None of those commands worked... However, I've also found that echo $SHELL in my regular 
user's terminal says /bin/sh, while as root it says /bin/csh. Both root and the non-root 
user's shells are listed in /etc/passwd as /bin/tcsh, so where else would the shell get 
set? Can I just set all terminals and all users (i.e. me) to have the same shell with the 
same capabilities?

thnx,

b

PS: grrr... bottom posting.




Matthew Seaman wrote:
>>Dan Nelson wrote:
>>
>>>In the last episode (Mar 01), Ben Munat said:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Why doesn't tab completion in the shell work for my regular
>>>>(non-root) user?
>>>
>>>
>>>That depends on what shell "the shell" refers to, of course.
>>>
> 
> 
> Grrr... top posting.
> 
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 12:29:15AM -0800, Ben Munat wrote:
> 
>>According to /etc/passwd, both root and my regular user are using /bin/tcsh.
> 
> 
> Try the following:
> 
>     % set autolist
>     % set autoexpand
>     % set autocorrect
>     % set matchbeep = nomatch
> 
> then see if tab completion behaves more like the way you expect it to.
> If you like the way that behaves, then add those set commands to
> ~/.tcshrc inside the 'if ($?prompt) ... endif' block.  For details of
> what those variables actually do and various other variables you can
> use for similar purposes, read tcsh(1).
> 
>     Cheers,
> 
>     Matthew
>