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@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ .\" used here if you can. In particular, please don't use nroff commands .\" which aren't already used herein. .\" -.TH TCSH 1 "3 March 2007" "Astron 6.15.00" +.TH TCSH 1 "10 July 2009" "Astron 6.17.00" .SH NAME tcsh \- C shell with file name completion and command line editing .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -1785,7 +1785,7 @@ Equivalent to `\-P \fIfile\fR & \fImode\fR', e.g., `\-P22 \fIfile\fR' returns and `0' if by neither .TP 8 .B P\fImode\fB: -Like \fBP\fImode\fB:\fR, with leading zero +Like \fBP\fImode\fR, with leading zero .TP 8 .B U Numeric userid @@ -1894,9 +1894,9 @@ default \fInotify\fR marks the current process; simply say `notify' after starting a background job to mark it. .PP When you try to leave the shell while jobs are stopped, you will be -warned that `You have stopped jobs.' You may use the \fIjobs\fR command to see -what they are. If you do this or immediately try to exit again, the shell will -not warn you a second time, and the suspended jobs will be terminated. +warned that `There are suspended jobs.' You may use the \fIjobs\fR command to +see what they are. If you do this or immediately try to exit again, the shell +will not warn you a second time, and the suspended jobs will be terminated. .SS "Automatic, periodic and timed events (+)" There are various ways to run commands and take other actions automatically at various times in the ``life cycle'' of the shell. They are summarized here, @@ -2413,6 +2413,14 @@ completion. If null, no character is appended. If omitted (in which case the fourth delimiter can also be omitted), a slash is appended to directories and a space to other words. .PP +\fIcommand\fR invoked from `...` version has additional environment +variable set, the variable name is \%\fBCOMMAND_LINE\fR\% and +contains (as its name indicates) contents of the current (already +typed in) command line. One can examine and use contents of the +\%\fBCOMMAND_LINE\fR\% variable in her custom script to build more +sophisticated completions (see completion for svn(1) included in +this package). +.PP Now for some examples. Some commands take only directories as arguments, so there's no point completing plain files. .IP "" 4 @@ -2921,6 +2929,9 @@ the maximum number of simultaneous processes for this user id .TP \fIsbsize\fR the maximum size of socket buffer usage for this user +.TP +\fIswapsize\fR +the maximum amount of swap space reserved or used for this user .PP \fImaximum-use\fR may be given as a (floating point or integer) number followed by a scale factor. For all limits @@ -3367,13 +3378,14 @@ executed programs. .B universe \fIuniverse\fR (+) Sets the universe to \fIuniverse\fR. (Masscomp/RTU only) .TP 8 -.B unlimit \fR[\fB\-h\fR] [\fIresource\fR] +.B unlimit \fR[\fB\-hf\fR] [\fIresource\fR] Removes the limitation on \fIresource\fR or, if no \fIresource\fR is specified, all \fIresource\fR limitations. With \fB\-h\fR, the corresponding hard limits are removed. Only the super-user may do this. Note that \fBunlimit\fR may not exit successful, since most systems do not allow \fIdescriptors\fR to be unlimited. +With \fB\-f\fR errors are ignored. .TP 8 .B unset \fIpattern Removes all variables whose names match \fIpattern\fR, unless they are read-only. @@ -3466,7 +3478,7 @@ Runs before each command gets executed, or when the command changes state. This is similar to \fIpostcmd\fR, but it does not print builtins. .RS +8 .IP "" 4 -> alias jobcmd 'echo \-n "^[]2\e;\e!#^G"' +> alias jobcmd 'echo \-n "^[]2\e;\e!#:q^G"' .PP then executing \fIvi foo.c\fR will put the command string in the xterm title bar. .RE @@ -3515,7 +3527,7 @@ should be used. Runs before each command gets executed. .RS +8 .IP "" 4 -> alias postcmd 'echo \-n "^[]2\e;\e!#^G"' +> alias postcmd 'echo \-n "^[]2\e;\e!#:q^G"' .PP then executing \fIvi foo.c\fR will put the command string in the xterm title bar. .RE @@ -3566,7 +3578,8 @@ each completion attempt. .TP 8 .B autoexpand \fR(+) If set, the \fIexpand-history\fR editor command is invoked automatically -before each completion attempt. +before each completion attempt. If this is set to \fIonlyhistory\fR, then +only history will be expanded and a second completion will expand filenames. .TP 8 .B autolist \fR(+) If set, possibilities are listed after an ambiguous completion. @@ -3615,6 +3628,10 @@ And display colorful NLS messages. .B command \fR(+) If set, the command which was passed to the shell with the \fB-c\fR flag (q.v.). .TP 8 +.B compat_expr \fR(+) +If set, the shell will evaluate expressions right to left, like the original +\fIcsh\fR. +.TP 8 .B complete \fR(+) If set to `enhance', completion 1) ignores case and 2) considers periods, hyphens and underscores (`.', `\-' and `_') to be word @@ -5057,9 +5074,7 @@ supervisor call mechanism [are my IBM roots also showing?]). The creator of tcsh was impressed by this feature and several others of TENEX and TOPS-20, and created a version of csh which mimicked them. .SH LIMITATIONS -Words can be no longer than 1024 characters. -.PP -The system limits argument lists to 10240 characters. +The system limits argument lists to ARG_MAX characters. .PP The number of arguments to a command which involves filename expansion is limited to 1/6th the number of characters allowed in an argument list. @@ -5076,7 +5091,7 @@ pipe(2), setrlimit(2), sigvec(2), stat(2), umask(2), vfork(2), wait(2), malloc(3), setlocale(3), tty(4), a.out(5), termcap(5), environ(7), termio(7), Introduction to the C Shell .SH VERSION -This manual documents tcsh 6.15.00 (Astron) 2007-03-03. +This manual documents tcsh 6.17.00 (Astron) 2009-07-10. .SH AUTHORS .PD 0 .TP 2 |
