From: Gabor <gabor@vmunix.com>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@zanshin.com>
Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: filecompletion in ksh93 (fwd)
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 20:41:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19991218204115.A19493@vmunix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.20.9912110844560.22513-100000@aztec.zanshin.com>; from schaefer@zanshin.com on Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 09:03:10AM -0800
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 09:03:10AM -0800, Bart Schaefer wrote:
# This is interesting; I haven't seen a recent ksh manual. Looks like ksh
# can do "widgets" too, after a fashion. Use of "trap" on a magic KEYBD
# signal to invoke the function is kinda cutesy.
I am surprised more people don't know about this. It was one of the
first nifty things I learned in ksh93. :) But what's the best is that
people make statements about things which they know nothing about.
Like that it cannot be done, even though they don't use ksh93. I love
that.
# ---------- Forwarded message ----------
# Date: 11 Dec 1999 09:33:05 -0500
# From: Gabor <gabor@vmunix.com>
# Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
# Subject: Re: filecompletion in ksh93
#
# In comp.unix.shell, Dave Brown <dagbrown@home.com> wrote:
# # In article <82s1s9$cn5$1@avon.europe.sco.com>,
# # Ajay Matai <matai@bigfoot.com> wrote:
# # : How to make tab work as filename completion in ksh?
# #
# # You can't. You have to type awkward, nonintuitive characters
#
# Wrong. You can. There might be better solutions than mine here. This one
# works in vi mode, and the next one in emacs.
#
# function vi_tab
# {
# # what looks like a space on the next line is a physical tab
# if [[ ${.sh.edmode} == "^[" && ${.sh.edchar} == " " ]] then
# .sh.edchar="^[\\"
# elif [[ ${.sh.edmode} != "^[" && ${.sh.edchar} == "=" ]] then
# .sh.edchar="=a"
# fi
# }
#
# trap 'vi_tab' KEYBD
#
# function emacs_tab
# {
# # what looks like a space on the next line is a physical tab
# if [[ ${.sh.edchar} == " " ]] then
# .sh.edchar="^[^["
# fi
# }
#
#
#
#
#
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1999-12-11 17:03 Bart Schaefer
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