Re: Questions

[Ben Ford <ben kalifornia com>]

delmar watkins wrote:

> While more "shell" oriented, why not make a shell like Kermit or Cisco IOS?
> Basically, if as long as you don't have another command that starts with the
> same letters, you can abbreviate.  Say that you want to do a list of
> directories ("ls").  Well, instead of having to memorize "ls", you can
> simply type, "list" and there you go.  However, as long as no other command
> starts with "li", then you could also type, "li" and it would autocomplete
> the command to "list" and run.

Ever used Bash?  ;)  That is what the tab is for!


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