[PATCH] Add `set -o tabcomplete' to /bin/sh.

Matthew Dillon dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Sat Feb 14 09:46:50 PST 2009


:YONETANI Tomokazu wrote:
:> Hello.
:> I played with NetBSD the other day, and found that their version of
:> bourne shell has a nice file name completion feature, which we don't
:> have.  The attached patch adds `tabcomplete' option, which turns on
:> this file name completion feature, which defaults to off.
:
:Is there any reason to default to off?
:
:Also, why is -o emacs off by default?
:
:cheers
:   simon
:

    We should probably follow whatever NetBSD does there, but there is
    no reason we can't turn it on in the default /etc/profile.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at backplane.com>





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