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Old 08-25-2009, 02:28 AM   #122
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To optimize for command line use you have to think about things like navigating in shells and file name expansion. For example a director or file name starting wit a capital letter is very inconvenient
When I started to use FreeBSD, the first thing I used to do was to install bash, vim and mc.
Later on I tried to use the tcsh shell - the default shell for root. When you are a beginner and want to use examples in The Handbook, tcsh shell is quite essential. I very soon learned that tcsh is a very powerful shell. When I discovered package called tcshrc I fell in love with tcsh.

At the moment I use Mint Linux - an Ubuntu clone. By the way, being able to use Calibre Out-Of-Box is one of reasons. Even in Ubuntu I still use tcsh as my default shell. When you install plain vanilla tcshrc package ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcshrc/ ) you get a *very* intelligent autocompletition that works regardless of the case, you get much better history (you type part of the command and press the Up arrow and the history is searched for commands beginning with the typed part - exactly the way the comandline history wirks in Vim)

Do give tcsh in combination with tcshrc package a try.

Or search the net for some clever bashrc file. I am pretty sure that somebody has written a set of fiendishly clever set of bash configuration files that can do <Tab> key completion that works regardless of the letter case.
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