Subject: Re: bin/4167: WIBNI sh supported file/command/etc completion?
To: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: current-users
Date: 09/26/1997 23:10:18
Todd Vierling writes:
> On Fri, 26 Sep 1997 tsarna@endicor.com wrote:
>
> : >How-To-Repeat:
> : Wish /bin/sh supported tab completion of command names, file
> : names, variable names, etc, like bash.
>
> sh needs to be as lean and mean as possible, IMHO. It's the shell used by
> your average Un*x script, so adding filename completion, line editing, blah,
> blah would add Feeping Creaturism to sh.
It ALREADY has line editing.
Perry