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Re: Still having problems with \n in PS1 (& other readline comments)

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From: Per Foreby
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1989 23:37
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In article <1989Nov16.065930.23255@rpi.edu> tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) writes:

> 
> Brian, you say that you don't like the way C-d is context dependent in
> tcsh (which, by the way, is not local to Rutgers; it is standard
> tcsh).  How about making TAB work like Emacs does in completing reads?
> If TAB can't add any non-ambiguous characters from point then it shows
> completions otherwise it adds in what can.
> 
I found that C-x isn't bound to anything per default. C-x is almost as
easy to type as C-d so I added it to my $HOME/.inputrc:

	C-x:    possible-completions

Maybe this binding should be default?

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Per Foreby
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