z/OS V1R9.0 UNIX System Services Command ... - Christian Grothoff

and typed mail -f c.l.c[tab], it would be completed to mail -f comp.lang.c, and ^D
would list comp.lang.c and comp.lang.c++. mail -f c..c++[^D] would list
comp.lang.c++ and comp.std.c++. Typing rm a--file[^D] in the following directory
A_silly_file a-hyphenated-file another_silly_file
would list all three files, because case is ignored and hyphens and underscores are
equivalent. Periods, however, are not equivalent to hyphens or underscores.
Completion and listing are affected by several other tcsh shell variables: recexact
can be set to complete on the shortest possible unique match, even if more typing
might result in a longer match. For example:
> ls
fodder foo food foonly
> set recexact
> rm fo[tab]
just beeps, because ’fo’ could expand to ’fod’ or ’foo’, but if we type another ’o’,
> rm foo[tab]
> rm foo
the completion completes on ’foo’, even though ’food’ and ’foonly’ also match.
autoexpand can be set to run the expand-history editor command before each
completion attempt, and correct can be set to complete commands automatically
after one hits ’return’. matchbeep can be set to make completion beep or not beep
in a variety of situations, and nobeep can be set to never beep at all. nostat can
be set to a list of directories and/or patterns which match directories to prevent the
completion mechanism from stat(2)ing those directories.
Note: The completion operation succeeds, but faster. The setting of nostat is
evident when using the listflags variable. For example:
>set listflags=x
>ls-F /u/pluto
Dir1/exe1*
>set nostat=(/u/pluto/)
>ls-F /u/pluto
Dir1exe1
>
Although, you must be careful when setting nostat to keep the trailing /
(forward slash).
listmax and listmaxrows can be set to limit the number of items and rows
(respectively) that are listed without asking first. recognize_only_executables can
be set to make the shell list only executables when listing commands, but it is quite
slow.
Finally, the complete built-in command can be used to tell the shell how to
complete words other than filenames, commands and variables. Completion and
listing do not work on glob-patterns (see “Filename substitution” on page 643), but
the list-glob and expand-glob editor commands perform equivalent functions for
glob-patterns.
Spelling correction
The tcsh shell can sometimes correct the spelling of filenames, commands and
variable names as well as completing and listing them.
tcsh
Individual words can be spelling-corrected with the spell-word editor command
(usually bound to M-s and M-S where M = Meta Key or escape (ESC) key) and the
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