Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <411068C9.3040203@comcast.net> Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 00:40:41 -0400 From: CyberZombie User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2 (Windows/20040707) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Miller CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Please help with 4NT and cygwin problem?? (WinXP) References: <20040803201806 DOT GA24082 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <410FF67A DOT 2060108 AT comcast DOT net> <411013CF DOT 8080505 AT comcast DOT net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------040409040901030400070909" --------------040409040901030400070909 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Daniel Miller wrote: >CyberZombie wrote in >news:411013CF DOT 8080505 AT comcast DOT net: > > > >>>No, I find 4NT to be more flexible than BASH... filename completion is >>>handier, especially when multiple filenames match what you type; >>>editing of environment variables (especially PATH) with eset is >>>unmatched by Bash, and there are some other handy things in 4NT as >>>well, which are lacked by Bash. I do alot of work with Bash on my >>>job, under Linux, and I often rue the absence of 4NT there... >>> >>>... of course, that's when it works... >>> >>> Dan >>> >>> >>> >>For filename completion, the following might help >>.inputrc: >>set completion-ignore-case on >>set bell-style none >> >> >> >This is cool, thanks!! There are some other things that I thought Bash >didn't do, but your recent message got me looking for Bash tutorials again, >and I've found how to do some of those things. For example, 4NT lets you >type part of a previously-typed command, then use up-arrow to walk thru all >previous command which started with what you typed. I thought Bash didn't >have such a thing (other than !, which only selects one command), but now >I've discovered Control-R, which does just that!! Cool stuff!! > >Now, if ls would just stop marking all files as executable when I use /F, >I'd be very happy!! > >... and I may need to switch to Bash if I can't get these 4NT quirks >solved... > > Dan > > > >-- >Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html >Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html >FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > > > I've mapped up, down (and others) in .inputrc ... attaching --------------040409040901030400070909 Content-Type: text/plain; name=".inputrc" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename=".inputrc" "\e[3~": delete-char # this is actually equivalent to "\C-?": delete-char # VT "\e[1~": beginning-of-line "\e[4~": end-of-line # kvt "\e[H":beginning-of-line "\e[F":end-of-line # rxvt and konsole (i.e. the KDE-app...) "\e[7~":beginning-of-line "\e[8~":end-of-line --------------040409040901030400070909 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ --------------040409040901030400070909--