Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!iuvax!bobmon From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Request Filename Completion Message-ID: <13107@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> Date: 25 Sep 88 17:48:33 GMT References: <6859@uwmcsd1.UUCP> Reply-To: bobmon@iuvax.UUCP (RAMontante) Distribution: na Organization: malkaryotic Lines: 29 Apologies if this is a dead issue by now, but... burkett@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Edward W Burkett) writes: > > Copyright 1985-6 Michael M. Rubenstein > > HISTORY is a history processing terminate and stay resident > program. It provides the ability to recall and edit previous > commands and allows much more sophisticated editing than is found > in the normal MSDOS system. > >Filename completion in HISTORY is limited to those filenames which have >already been accessed and are in the history buffer. As of v1.3R, which was done by Russell Nelson, HISTORY includes TENEX-style filename completion. (NOT just those which have been previously accessed). This also works for subdirectories and files in subdirectories, on a level-by-level basis. E.g., hitto complete a name which happens to be a subdirectory, specify some amount of name, hit to complete as much of that name as is unique . . . until you have what you want. It's currently at (or beyond) v1.4, and has been ported from Aztec C to TurboC. Source is included. The ability to retrieve-and-edit-or-modify arbitrary previous commands by typing initial letters is what has kept me from switching to CED (I do miss the alias feature occasionally, tho'.) -- -- bob,mon (bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu) -- "Aristotle was not Belgian..." - Wanda