[H-GEN] Useful not so obvious tips

[Stephen Thorne]

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 00:57:44 -0400 (EDT), Robert Brockway
<rbrockway at opentrend.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Anthony Irwin wrote:
> > -* You can press the tab key for text completion when typing in a shell.
> >
> > -* You can press the up arrow key to see previously used commands in a
> > shell.
> For the records both of these are shell specific.  Bashm Zsh and tcsh
> will do both of these.  Tcsh was the first Unix shell with these
> features I believe.  It got at least some of its bells and
> whistles from _Tenex_.

Windows cmd.exe also does tab-completion and up-arrow for previous
commands. This was a refreshing change from the hell I usually
experience when forced to do DOS stuff.

Its kinda nice when you discover that Microsoft is only 10 years
behind on usable interfaces. :)

Stephen.