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TO ALL:

As you know on an HP box you can hit <ESC><ESC> to finish out the line,
on Linux you hit <TAB>. What, if anything, works like this is AIX?

TIA,

Garret

Quote:>TO ALL:

>As you know on an HP box you can hit <ESC><ESC> to finish out the line,
>on Linux you hit <TAB>. What, if anything, works like this is AIX?

>TIA,

>Garret

Hi Garret,
if you set
set -o emacs
you can use  <ESC><ESC>
and if you set

set -o vi

use <ESC> \

Hartwig

It has nothing to do with what particular Unix variant you are
running, but rather which shell you are running.

For the C Shell:

If you have "set filec" in your .cshrc (it might be turned on by
default), file completion works by hitting <ESC>

For the Korn/POSIX shell (the AIX default shell):

For "emacs style" command line editing, either "set -o emacs" or
"export VISUAL=emacs" will give you completion with <ESC><ESC>.  "set
-o vi" or "export VISUAL=vi" will give you completion with <ESC>\ .

For tcsh (doesn't ship with AIX):

Completion will work with either <TAB> or <ESC><ESC> .

For bash (doesn't ship with AIX):

By default, completion is bound to <TAB> .  However, keys can be
rebound to other functions by the user.

Hope this helps.

--
Greg Wimpey

: TO ALL:

: As you know on an HP box you can hit <ESC><ESC> to finish out the line,
: on Linux you hit <TAB>. What, if anything, works like this is AIX?

: TIA,

: Garret

If you are referring to the tab completion that shells
such as bash implement, then what you're looking for
is the key sequence ESC-\.  It's often best to run
'set -o vi' in the shell before attempting this at
home, however.

Best,

Nicholas Dronen