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Paths and programs, which is the half that makes it worth having. The first word of a line is a command or a PROGRAM, offered under the name somebody would type - the extension taken off - and anything after it is a file, offered as it really is. A separator anywhere in the word says which directory to look in. A directory answers with a separator on the end instead of a space, which says what it is and lets the next part be typed straight away. The answer ending in one is also what stops a space being added, so that is one test rather than a flag. PROGRAMS ARE LOOKED FOR WHERE THE SHELL WOULD LOOK to run one: where you are, /Apps on the disk you are on, and /Apps on drive 0. Offering something the shell would not find would be finishing a word into a thing that then does not work. Drive 0's is skipped when that is already the drive, or every program in it would be offered twice and nothing would ever be the only match. Walking somebody else's directory means standing in it, which is the only way to walk one here, so where the person was and which drive they were on are put down first and restored whatever happens. Three bugs, all found by running it: THE DIRECTORY TEST WAS INVERTED. dir asks the same question the same way round four hundred lines further up, which is what made it obvious once looked at. THE /Apps WALK OVERWROTE THE TYPED PATH. The whole search runs a second time to list the matches, and by then TabDir said "/Apps" - so a word that had named nowhere went looking in the wrong place and listed nothing at all. Two ways into the walk now, and the typed path is never written over. AND LISTING ONLY KNEW ABOUT COMMANDS, because it was a second copy of the walk. It is the same walk with a flag now: finding the answer and showing the matches are the same question asked twice. Also cosmosMonitor, which had been RE-BLESSED INTO MEANINGLESSNESS by the wall move. It disassembles a loaded program, at an address the input names - and that address moved a page while the recording was simply re-recorded to whatever came out, which was a page of zeroes. It is pointed at 5000 again. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01E2JrLzFvuFX9fgi1LDRjrW
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### Finishing A Word:
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Tab finishes the **first** word of a line against the shell's own commands. One match goes in
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with a space after it, because a word that can only be one thing is finished. Several are
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folded into their longest common prefix and that goes in, which is the most that can be said
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without guessing which was meant - and if that adds nothing, because what is typed is already
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as far as they all agree, the matches are listed and the line put back underneath.
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Tab finishes the word being typed. One match goes in with a space after it, because a word
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that can only be one thing is finished. Several are folded into their longest common prefix
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and that goes in, which is the most that can be said without guessing which was meant - and
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if that adds nothing, because what is typed is already as far as they all agree, the matches
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are listed and the line put back underneath.
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Nothing typed and nothing matching both do nothing, quietly. Finishing an argument rather
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than a command is not built yet.
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**What it can be depends on where in the line it is.** The first word is a command or a
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program; anything after it is a file.
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| Where | What is offered |
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| -- | -- |
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| The first word | the fifteen commands, and programs - under the name you would type, with the extension taken off |
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| After it | anything on the disk, under its real name |
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| Either, with a `/` in it | whatever is in the directory the word names |
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A directory answers with a separator on the end instead of a space, which says what it is and
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lets the next part be typed straight away.
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**Programs are looked for in the three places the shell would look to run one**: where you
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are, `/Apps` on the disk you are on, and `/Apps` on drive 0. Offering something the shell
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would not find would be finishing a word into a thing that then does not work. A program that
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is in two of those places is offered twice and so is never the only match, which costs it the
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space after it - the shell is comparing names, not deciding which file it would have run.
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Nothing typed and nothing matching both do nothing, quietly.
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**This is the same wall the history was behind.** A shell that never sees a keystroke has no
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moment at which somebody has typed half a word - the terminal hands over finished lines - so
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