Subject: Re: bashism for ksh
To: None <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
From: Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 09/27/2007 19:26:42
Aleksey Cheusov dixit:

>programmable autocompletion like that bash and zsh have?

Not in mksh. Sorry.

a) It's bloat. Period.

b) It makes the shell's behaviour non-deterministic.

In BSD, we believe in the KISS principles very strongly.
You might be able to do that with AT&T ksh though.

bye,
//mirabilos
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