[Info-vax] Suggested DCL enhancement

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-11-05, Hein RMS van den Heuvel <heinvandenheuvel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Too little too late, but still welcome!

It sounds like you have some additional ideas. I would be interested in
hearing what they are in case VSI feel like implementing them.

> No doubt the character would have to be <TAB> (HT, 0x09), compatible with Powershell and others.
> It has no meaning/value  in DCL and using it on an older system would not create bad surprises, just nothing useful.
> In Powershell <TAB> circles through all completion options in alphabetical order.
> Shift-<TAB> goes backwards but that's not available in a regular terminal session on OpenVMS
>
> TABbing should include filename lookup/completion when appropriate in the command line position.
>
> Cheers,
> Hein
>

Tab would be incompatible with filename completion in this case as you
might want to press Tab to get a list of all the files in the current
directory before you have typed any part of the filename.

I find that quite useful in Bash at times.

Escape or a function key (including maybe one of the PF keys) might be
a possibility if you don't want to type Ctrl-{something} (but you would
have to wait a full second for the Escape to timeout if you used that).

Simon.

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