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Re: weird expansion and compctl for man pages

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From: Clint Adams <clint@xxxxxxx>
To: Will Yardley <william@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: weird expansion and compctl for man pages
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 20:58:48 -0400
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In-reply-to: <3B411596.6E68EE4B@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; from william@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 05:45:10PM -0700
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>                 preexec () {print -Pn "\e]2;%n@%m  $*  %l %W  %T\a"}

> ssh machine ssh machine ssh machine ssh machine

Check the docs for preexec.  $* is no longer what you want;
you'll want to replace that with either $1, $2, or $3.

> 4.3-stable.  does anyone have a working script on a similar system? 
> basically i want to be able to type:
> man
> and then tab complete to various programs as long as there's a man page
> for them
> so man l[tab] would expand to ls, lsof etc.

You may want to try out

autoload -U compinstall ; compinstall

and see if that doesn't make your life easier.

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- weird expansion and compctl for man pages
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