9 Jul
2018
9 Jul
'18
6:56 a.m.
On Sun, Jul 08, 2018 at 08:05:29PM -0400, Dan Cross wrote:
On Sun, Jul 8, 2018 at 7:28 PM Bakul Shah
<bakul(a)bitblocks.com> wrote:
Yeah, I'm gonna go with what I learned about TOPS-20, I didn't know that,
that's way way better than any auto complition I've seen on Unix.
[...]
I believe autocompletion has been available for 20+ years. IIRC, I
switched to zsh in 1995 and it has had autocompletion then. But you
do have to teach zsh/bash how to autocomplete for a given program.
csh has had filename auto-completion since the late 70s or early 80s,
though nowhere as rich or as full-featured as bash/zsh, let alone TOPS-20. This. Much of the issue with Unix was convention, or
rather, lack of a
consistent convention. Proponents of DEC operating systems that I've known
decry that Unix can't do stuff like, `RENAME *.FTN *.FOR`, because the
http://mcvoy.com/lm/move
fixes that. Since around the late 80's.
main(argc, argv)
int argc;
char *argv[];
{
if (--argc > 0 && *argv[1] == '-') {
argv++;
while (*++*argv)
switch (**argv) {
case 'a':
/* etc.... */
continue;
}
}
/* And so on.... */
I mean, goodness: we didn't even use getopt(3)! It was all hand-rolled! And
thus inconsistent.
Gotta agree with this one. Getopt should have been a thing from day one.
We rolled our own that I like:
http://repos.bkbits.net/bk/dev/src/libc/utils/getopt.c?PAGE=anno&REV=56…