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Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 20:41:15 -0500
From: Gabor <gabor@vmunix.com>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@zanshin.com>
Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: filecompletion in ksh93 (fwd)
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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
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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
#=20
# 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?
# #=20
# # You can't.  You have to type awkward, nonintuitive characters
#=20
# Wrong.  You can.  There might be better solutions than mine here.  This o=
ne
# works in vi mode, and the next one in emacs.
#=20
# function vi_tab
# {
#     # what looks like a space on the next line is a physical tab
#     if [[ ${.sh.edmode} =3D=3D "=1B" && ${.sh.edchar} =3D=3D "	" ]] then
#         .sh.edchar=3D"=1B\\"
#     elif [[ ${.sh.edmode} !=3D "=1B" && ${.sh.edchar} =3D=3D "=3D" ]] then
#         .sh.edchar=3D"=3Da"
#     fi
# }
#=20
# trap 'vi_tab' KEYBD
#=20
# function emacs_tab
# {
#     # what looks like a space on the next line is a physical tab
#     if [[ ${.sh.edchar} =3D=3D "	" ]] then
#         .sh.edchar=3D"=1B=1B"
#     fi
# }
#=20
#=20
#=20
#=20
#=20