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TCSH on Windows XP?

Posted by Cliff on from the shells-on-win32 dept.

An unfortunete XP user... asks: "I find myself having to use a Windows XP Pro machine at work, but I want to convience of tcsh... command.com just doesn't cut it for what I am doing. Has anyone ported a *NIX shell (csh, tcsh, or even sh) to Windows XP Pro?" How well does Cygwin handle the Windows XP environment?

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  1. How about BASH? by TTop · · Score: 3, Informative

    you can do bash in cygwin.

  2. Well, tabby by seann · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is more of a hint than a full fledged tcsh.

    You know how you can transverse directory in almost every shell in Linux and Unix by using tab?
    Well in Windows XP (And maybe others) you can do this too.

    However, you have to use cmd.exe and not command.com, and you can happly cd \wi\sys\inf\\\\\
    This gets me by.. for now.

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    1. Re:Well, tabby by zango · · Score: 2, Informative

      go thru the following
      HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Co mmand Processor
      in regedit (or some other registry editor)
      and set the "Completion Char" key to 9 (for Tab)

      presto... next cmd session, u have "Tab" completion !!!

  3. Re:tcsh by cooldev · · Score: 5, Informative

    Another option -- and I can't recommend this highly enough -- is eshell for emacs. It's the best interactive shell I have ever used (by a long shot, and I've used many), and it's especially nice on NT/Win2k/XP because emacs is an infintely better terminal environment than the standard command windows you have to run cmd, tcsh, or bash in.

    Eshell is so good that I can see myself giving up emacs as an editor and keeping it for the shell. And that's saying something.

    The above port of tcsh would be my next choice, followed by Cygwin's bash. You'll want Cygwin so you can have the full set of commands under eshell anyway, but bash isn't as well integrated with Windows as eshell and the tcsh port.

  4. Re:Google for "zsh win32" by Cy+Guy · · Score: 2, Informative

    There is a native Zsh port for win32 that works very nicely

    You can read more about it here. You can get it by FTP from ftp://ftp.blarg.net/users/amol/zsh But you will need a gzip decompressor.

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