[Gllug] [OT] A Solaris question someone might be able to answer.

[Alain Williams]

On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 11:58:51PM +0100, Philip Davies wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 01:49:01PM +0100, Wiehe, Simon wrote:
> > 
> > I am connecting to a Solaris 2.8 box and using ksh. On one 
> > machine I can do file completion with Esc+\ but on another
> > none of the escape sequences work. In this case I am connected
> > using hummingbird exceed, but I don't think it is a keyboard issue
> > as it does work with one machine but not the other.
> > 
> > Is there something I need to put in my .profile to turn on file 
> > completion in ksh, like 'set filec' in csh ? Also would this
> > allow me to do both the Esc+\ and the Esc+k and get the usual
> > ksh response?
> 
> If I remember correctly, by default ksh uses emacs mode (which means 
> ESC+ESC does auto completion). To switch it to vi mode I think you 
> need the following in your .profile 
> 
> VISUAL=$(whence vi)
> export VISUAL

Try:

	set -o emacs
or
	set -o vi

depending on taste.

In emacs mode you should get file completion with EscEsc.

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