question regarding CLI Tab-search & zsh

[David J Patrick]

cbbrowne-HInyCGIudOg at public.gmane.org wrote:

>This is sometimes termed "globbing", but is more properly termed
>"expansion."
>  
>
what, is that 4 names so far ?  :)

>With the latest versions, zsh supports building scripts to complete all
>sorts of command line parameters, often in a strongly-typed fashion.
>
>For instance, if I type "ssh -" and hit [tab], it will show the
>following:
>
>cbbrowne at dba2:~> ssh -                                       Wednesday
>16:37:42
>-1  -- forces ssh to try protocol version 1 only
>-2  -- forces ssh to try protocol version 2 only
>-4  -- forces ssh to use IPv4 addresses only
>-6  -- forces ssh to use IPv6 addresses only
>-A  -- enables forwarding of the authentication agent connection
>-C  -- compress data
>
[snip]

>I could thus specify blowfish encryption by typing:
>% ssh -c b[TAB]
>  
>
ka-wow ! gotta have that !
apt-get install zsh ?
bash+, right ?

gee, I wonder if there are /even better/ shells ??

;-)

djp


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