Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 21:32:08 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Feldman <green@zone.syracuse.net> To: Parag Patel <parag@cgt.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stupid ksh tricks [Was: Re: Changing sh for compatibility sake] Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810282130250.8727-100000@zone.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <199810281822.KAA15056@pinhead.parag.codegen.com>
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set -o vi-tabcomplete -Brian Feldman On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Parag Patel wrote: > > A minor aside regarding some stupid ksh tricks... > > My fingers have gotten used to hitting TAB in bash for completing file names. I'd avoided pdksh only for this one reason. (Sad, I know.) > > I recently dug through the man-page for pdksh and discovered that adding these following lines: > > case "$KSH_VERSION" in > *"PD KSH"*) > bind '^I=complete' > bind '^I^I=complete-list' > ;; > esac > > to my .kshrc (which is linked to .bashrc for me) and things work just fine. It's not *exactly* the same output, but it's pretty much the same behavior and so my fingers don't have to be retrained. I've switched over to pdksh now. > > I also have some ksh functions to mimic the csh/bash pushd/popd commands, so if anyone's interested in these, please let me know and I'll email my .kshrc or put it up for ftp. > > As an added bonus you also get a function for setting the title bar in several terminal emulators (xterm, hpterm, and Mac NCSA Telnet) to the current directory stack. > > > -- Parag > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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