[7555] in Athena Bugs
Re: tsch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Mon May 13 11:38:57 1991
Date: Mon, 13 May 91 11:37:52 -0400
From: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
To: amgreene@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Andrew Marc Greene's message of Mon, 13 May 91 10:49:12 -0400,
Reply-To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
The problem is that tcsh saw the semicolon at the end of:
perl -e 'while (<>) {$s+=$_;}; printf "%d\n", $s;'
and assumed that it should be doing command completion instead of
filename completion. Tcsh isn't terribly bright about its hueristics to
figure out when to do what kind of completion. On the TOPS-20, of
course, the command completer did enough parsing of the command and knew
enough about all of the various syntaxes that it could complete on
options to commands....
- Ted
