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> Subject: [newbie] neat trick: "man" completion
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> Haven't seen it before, but very useful:
>
> To use word completion with man, hit ESC !.
>
> IE:
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] huff]$ man pk < here i hit ESC
On Wednesday July 2 2003 10:11 am, Eric Huff wrote:
> > > Cool. You're using bash, right?
> >
> >Yep, but I think the twice is probly a good idea. I've
> > since tested on other apps besides 'cdrec' and it doesn't
> > always work. So I guess I've learned somethin new ;)
>
> Funny, because
> > Cool. You're using bash, right?
>
>Yep, but I think the twice is probly a good idea. I've
> since tested on other apps besides 'cdrec' and it doesn't
> always work. So I guess I've learned somethin new ;)
Funny, because twice doesn't work here! I gotta Esc !
What a strange featu
On Tuesday July 1 2003 11:19 pm, Eric Huff wrote:
> > > Tab doesn't work when the app follows "man". Try 'man
> > > cdrec' and nuthin' will happen.
> > >
> > > Miark
> >
> > H it does here. Maybe because I'm runnin 9.2
>
> Cool. You're using bash, right?
Yep, but I think the twi
> I tried "man che" and returned cheatmake, checkinstall, and checkXML. I
> tried man checkinstall and it said no manual entry for checkinstall. So
> this little trick isn't perfect! :/
Oddly, none of the three "che" files had man pages!
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That sounds like there's simply no manual for checkinstall,
in which case the is acting normally. (I know some
have only --help/-h switches instead of actual man pages.)
Miark
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 16:49:28 -0500, John Drouhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I tried "man che" and returned cheatmake
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] huff]$ man pk < here i hit ESC !
> > pk2bm pkg-config pkill pktogf pktopbm pktype
> >
> > and it gave all the solutions.
> >
> > This is straight out of the ML 9.0 Command line manual (p19).
> >
> > eric
>
> Hey Eric. Just curious, I have to hit twice
On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 09:58:03 -0700
Eric Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Haven't seen it before, but very useful:
>
> To use word completion with man, hit ESC !.
>
> IE:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] huff]$ man pk < here i hit ESC !
> pk2bm pkg-config pkill pktogf pktopbm pktype
On Monday June 30 2003 06:48 pm, Miark wrote:
> Tab doesn't work when the app follows "man". Try 'man
> cdrec' and nuthin' will happen.
>
> Miark
H it does here. Maybe because I'm runnin 9.2
>
>
> On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 10:47:51 -0500
>
> Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > O
On Sunday June 29 2003 02:06 pm, Miark wrote:
> By ESC !, Eric mean . :-)
>
> Miark
> On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 13:39:19 -0400
>
> "Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hey Eric. Just curious, I have to hit twice here, and it
> > asks if I want to display all 102 possibilities :-0
O
On Saturday 28 June 2003 06:07 pm, Eric Huff wrote:
> Hmmm... Don't know why you had to hit esc 2X. You should also be able to
> hold down alt instead of esc:
>
> alt ! (don't forget that ! is shift-1, not just 1).
>
> As for 102 possibilities, whew! Maybe you have a lot more pk's installed
> t
By ESC !, Eric mean . :-)
Miark
On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 13:39:19 -0400
"Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey Eric. Just curious, I have to hit twice here, and it asks if I want
> to display all 102 possibilities :-0
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On Saturday 28 June 2003 12:58 pm, Eric Huff wrote:
> Haven't seen it before, but very useful:
>
> To use word completion with man, hit ESC !.
>
> IE:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] huff]$ man pk < here i hit ESC !
> pk2bm pkg-config pkill pktogf pktopbm pktype
>
> and it gave all the
Haven't seen it before, but very useful:
To use word completion with man, hit ESC !.
IE:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] huff]$ man pk < here i hit ESC !
pk2bm pkg-config pkill pktogf pktopbm pktype
and it gave all the solutions.
This is straight out of the ML 9.0 Command line manual
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