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Date:      Wed, 28 Jul 1999 11:18:53 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
Cc:        Dominic Mitchell <Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk>, David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, Len Huppe <huppe@execpc.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Shell wars (was: What to tell to Linux-centric people?!')
Message-ID:  <19990728111853.K66861@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990727191738.A8427@daemon.ninth-circle.org>; from Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai on Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 07:17:38PM %2B0200
References:  <xzp7lnm5v3x.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <Pine.NEB.3.96.990727041901.92260B-100000@shell-2.enteract.com> <19990727125231.A66520@voodoo.pandhm.co.uk> <19990727191738.A8427@daemon.ninth-circle.org>

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On Tuesday, 27 July 1999 at 19:17:38 +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote:
> * Dominic Mitchell (Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk) [990727 17:15]:
>> On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 04:26:13AM -0500, David Scheidt wrote:
>>> I started to get addicted to zsh, and had to give it up.  I do most of my
>>> work on machines that have ksh and sh, and nothing else.  Let my tell you,
>>> ksh'88 makes bash look like sliced bread.
>>
>> Ksh is fine, and a lot better than a lot of people realise.  The one
>> beef that I have with it, after coming from zsh/bash is that completion
>> is ESC ESC (or ESC \ in vi mode), instead of TAB.  Dammit, everything
>> should use TAB!!
>
> *cough* bullshit *cough*
>
> set -o vi-tabcomplete
>
> Questions? [that's pdksh btw]

Yup.  Why doesn't this work?

  \[\]=== \u@\h (/dev/ttyp8) \[\]\w\[\] \# ->\[\] set -o emacs-tabcomplete
  ksh: set: emacs-tabcomplete: bad option

Greg
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