[rescue] ksh q...

[Brian Harrington]

--On Friday, September 14, 2001 1:21 PM -0500 Patrick Giagnocavo
<patrick at www2.zill.net> wrote:

> under OpenBSD, the ksh shell will expand a path for you when you press
> TAB.  Eg, if the path is /usr/sbin/local , I might type /usr/sb TAB
> loc TAB and the shell will expand the rest on each TAB.
> 
> How do I turn this feature on in other ksh's such as those found on
> IRIX and Sol8 boxen?

You install pdksh. :-)  "Real" ksh uses EscEsc in emacs mode, and Esc\ in
vi mode for filename completion.  Tab completion is a pdksh extension.

                       -- Brian



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Brian Harrington
Milton S. Eisenhower Library
The Johns Hopkins University
brian at sigh.mse.jhu.edu