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I use NCFTP instead of ftp when I'm ftp'ing.  One of the nice things about it
is that when I want to change directories all I need to do is to type the name
of that directory.  Could something similar be added to tcsh (or is it already
being considered)?

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A problem might be resolving ambiguity:  If I keep the source code to
the program "foo" in the directory "foo", what happens if I just type
"foo"?  Do I run the program or change into the directory?  I suppose
this could be configured with "set cdbeforeexec" or some such.  In
that case, then, how would I run "foo"?  By using the program's
path?  Some other syntactic notation?  Don't know if it would be
worth the trouble....
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-> >I use NCFTP instead of ftp when I'm ftp'ing.  One of the nice things about it
-> >is that when I want to change directories all I need to do is to type the name
-> >of that directory.  Could something similar be added to tcsh (or is it already
-> >being considered)?

-> A problem might be resolving ambiguity:  If I keep the source code to
-> the program "foo" in the directory "foo", what happens if I just type
-> "foo"?  

Actually, it would depend on the path variable.  If . appears at the
beginning, you'd change directories.  If not, the program would be executed.
That would probably incite more people to stick it at the end of the path
instead of the beginning (like they should anyway).

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Not to criticize you personally, but it's not, fur crissake.  Three
keystrokes (`c', `d', ` ').  It can't take anyone *that* long to type?
Completion and other such features are one thing, but this is taking
it a little too far.

Yeah, I suppose path would handle it.  Well heck, maybe it's not
such a bad idea after all....
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Quote:>I use NCFTP instead of ftp when I'm ftp'ing.  One of the nice things about it
>is that when I want to change directories all I need to do is to type the name
>of that directory.  Could something similar be added to tcsh (or is it already
>being considered)?

Well, you could make your own by using another "return" key, e.g. F1
and the bindkey command.
The F1 key on my sun generates the escape sequence ^[[224z,
so writing

prompt> bindkey -s ^[[224z '^acd ^e^m'

will do the trick provided you have not bound ^a, ^e or ^m to something else.

Ex.
promtp> bin<F1>
and tcsh changes this too
prompt> cd bin<Return>

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Schlumberger Geco-Prakla                 +47 4 50 65 95
Stavanger, Norway

Along similar lines, I've been wanting to add a hook to tcsh, which
executes a script if "command not found."  This could be conditional
if a shell variable is set.

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