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jef@well.sf.ca.us (Jef Poskanzer) writes:

>All these different shells, tcsh, ksh, bash, zsh, but do any of them
>implement tenex-style command completion and prompting, the most perfect
>command-line interface ever devised?  I admit it would be a little weird
>trying to fit it into Unix, since the commands are so numerous and free-form,
>but I can think of a couple ways to do it.
>---
>Jef

>  Jef Poskanzer  jef@well.sf.ca.us  {apple, ucbvax, hplabs}!well!jef
>  "To downgrade the human mind is bad theology." -- C. K. Chesterton

I assume by "tenex-style" you mean using the spacebar and ?.  I have not 
found any like that.  I would really like that as well.  The closest I have
found so far is tcsh, which completes commands or filenames using the tab
key.  I believe some of the others may have a similar capability.  tcsh may
also be able to prompt with possible completions.  For filenames late 
versions of ksh will list possible completions in response to ESC= i believe.

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