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sjane@bmers248.bnr.ca (sjs) writes:

>In article <yeates.711122638@beryl17> yeates@rtsg.mot.com (Tony J Yeates) writes:
  I have only one suggestion
>>for improvement in this area - command line completion using the command history list
>>(as well as the "by filename completion feature" - which is great), as 4DOS has.
>>e.g. type "vi " then hit a "choosen key" (up arrow is already taken) to scroll thro'
>>(only) the previous vi commands.

>This function is already available.  It is called history-search-backward.
>You can bind it to a function key as I have bound it to F7  on my Sun:

>bindkey ^[[230z history-search-backward

>History-search-forward is also available in case you go too far too fast
>with history-search-backward.

Somebody else suggested using:-
bindkey "^[[A" history-search-backward

... which worked on my Sun.  Excellent, tcsh is now complete (almost!).

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>I'd also like the file completion to select one of completions if there
>are many instead of just beeping at me.  And then if I hit the tab key
>again, it should select another possible completion.. just like the PC.

I would second this suggestion.  Perhaps something like the way
<TAB> and <space> can be used to select groups (G) when using nn.