[wellylug] Take a hint

[Chris Hodgetts]

I also find that Ctrl-R in the command line also very  helpful


On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 10:07, jumbophut wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 21:36:44 +1200, Grant McLean wrote:
> > I've devised a very simple memory aid that has been proving
> > useful, so I thought I'd share it here.  The concept is a file
> > full of one-line 'hints' and an alias for grepping from it.
> > 
> 
> Very nice.  I'll give this a try.
> 
> For what it is worth, bash tab-completion is programmable to do
> similar stuff.  For example, you can set it up to give you a list of
> available options for a command when you tab (e.g. apt-get <tab> <tab>
> would give you a list of update, upgrade, remove etc.).  It's not
> exactly what you are intending to do, I don't think, but it's darn
> handy.
> 
> Examples, including downloadable scripts, are here:
> <http://www.caliban.org/bash/index.shtml>
> 
> -- 
> Tony (echo 'spend!,pocket awide' | sed 'y/acdeikospntw!, /l at omcgtjuba.phi/')
>