Re: [MacPerl-AnyPerl] seeking shell gimmicks

2001-08-19 Thread Nat Irons
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bart Lateur) wrote: > I must say that, after a quick test, I'm underwhelmed with what it does > (on DOS). Aagh. I was searching under an inappropriate conjugation. Term::Complete was easily modified to cut out the bell, and I'm contemplating

Re: [MacPerl-AnyPerl] seeking shell gimmicks

2001-08-19 Thread Jeff Lowrey
At 5:59 PM -0700 8/18/01, Nathaniel Irons wrote: >I'm writing some shell utilities that will see a lot of punishment, and >would benefit greatly from some common UI idioms. Specifically, I'd >like to know how to perform: Some poorly thought out guesses follow. >* keyword completion - tab-expan

Re: [MacPerl-AnyPerl] seeking shell gimmicks

2001-08-19 Thread Bart Lateur
On Sat, 18 Aug 2001 17:59:06 -0700, Nathaniel Irons wrote: >* keyword completion - tab-expanding a term from a known set, > ideally with some facility for partial completion and > presentation of remaining options A quick search reveals Term::Complete. Er... that is part of the standard dis

[MacPerl-AnyPerl] seeking shell gimmicks

2001-08-19 Thread Nathaniel Irons
I'm writing some shell utilities that will see a lot of punishment, and would benefit greatly from some common UI idioms. Specifically, I'd like to know how to perform: * keyword completion - tab-expanding a term from a known set, ideally with some facility for partial completion and pr