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From: Brian Feldman <green@zone.syracuse.net>
To: Parag Patel <parag@cgt.com>
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Subject: Re: Stupid ksh tricks [Was: Re: Changing sh for compatibility sake]
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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
> 
> 
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