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by **jp..** » Fri, 07 Apr 2000 04:00:00

does anyone know how to set filecompletion using the tab key
under ksh with vi commandline emulation under aix?

appreciate the help

john

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by **qazw..** » Fri, 07 Apr 2000 04:00:00

> does anyone know how to set filecompletion using the tab key
> under ksh with vi commandline emulation under aix?

Don't know about tab complete (that's a csh thing). However, if you
press "<ESC>\" (and you have set -o vi), that will complete your file
name. An extra key press over csh, but it does work.

Also try out "<ESC=>" and "<ESC*>". "<ESC>=" will list all of the files
that so far match your input, and "<ESC>*" will fill in for all files
that do match.

Otherwise, take a look at "man ksh" on your system and see if they
mention tab key file name completion.

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by **F. Michael Or** » Sat, 08 Apr 2000 04:00:00

> > does anyone know how to set filecompletion using the tab key
> > under ksh with vi commandline emulation under aix?

> Don't know about tab complete (that's a csh thing). However, if you
> press "<ESC>\" (and you have set -o vi), that will complete your file
> name. An extra key press over csh, but it does work.

> Also try out "<ESC=>" and "<ESC*>". "<ESC>=" will list all of the files
> that so far match your input, and "<ESC>*" will fill in for all files
> that do match.

> Otherwise, take a look at "man ksh" on your system and see if they
> mention tab key file name completion.

If you 'set -o emacs', then ESC-ESC will do filename completion in ksh.
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by **Dan Merc** » Sat, 08 Apr 2000 04:00:00

>> does anyone know how to set filecompletion using the tab key
>> under ksh with vi commandline emulation under aix?

> Don't know about tab complete (that's a csh thing). However, if you
> press "<ESC>\" (and you have set -o vi), that will complete your file
> name. An extra key press over csh, but it does work.

> Also try out "<ESC=>" and "<ESC*>". "<ESC>=" will list all of the files
> that so far match your input, and "<ESC>*" will fill in for all files
> that do match.

Unless the resulting command line will exceed some buffer size which
seems to be around 256 characters. I couldn't correlate i to anything
in limits.h.

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> Otherwise, take a look at "man ksh" on your system and see if they
> mention tab key file name completion.

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