Re: Tasks

[Andrew Doran <ad%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 09:08:52AM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Andrew Doran wrote:
> > - Need to look into enabling line editing and tab completion by
> >   default in sh/ksh. If someone can figure it out a good way to do
> >   this by default, I will be happy to absorb any flamage and commit
> >   the changes.
> 
> The default /root/.profile sets ENV=/root/.shrc, and the default
> /etc/skel/.profile sets ENV=$HOME/.shrc.  Then both /root/.shrc and
> /etc/skel/.shrc turn on emacs line editing and tab completion.  This
> should be all we need, in terms of configuration, for sh and ksh to
> behave "like bash" on a fresh installation.

Wow, I am years out of date. So we *do* set -o emacs by default now.

> There is one thing missing in sh's implementation of tab
> completion: when you want to complete a command name, it instead
> attempts to complete a file name.

This works for me with ksh and the following:

if [ "x${KSH_VERSION}" != "x" ]; then
        bind '^I'=complete-list 2>/dev/null
fi

I will add it to shrc.

> If that were fixed, and if it grew a "set -o braceexpand" option, then I
> would personally have no need for bash.  (At least, I am not aware of any
> other bash features that I rely on and that are missing in /bin/sh.)

According to the manual page ksh has this.

Andrew