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sp00kyb00g13
sp00kyb00g13

Reputation: 55

Tab complete second command

I am trying to get tab completion on the second atom of a command.

I.e. man do<tab complete>

In bash this can be done with complete -cf <command> but I am not sure if this is possible in ksh. Any Ideas?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 387

Answers (1)

mirabilos
mirabilos

Reputation: 5327

It depends on which ksh flavour you are using.

In AT&T ksh88 as well as pdksh and derivatives (mksh, NetBSD ksh, OpenBSD ksh / oksh), this is not possible (asides from really weird hacks. They (I can say that for guaranteed for mksh as I am its developer) complete the second (and follow-up, except after a closing parenthesis )) word of a command consistently as cwd-relative pathname (“file” simplified).

AT&T ksh93 in the last version from AT&T 93u+20120801 does not have programmable tab completion; however, the new development under situ from Red Hat introduced it, as indicated in the manpage. You will not likely find this in any stable distro yet, however, they have recently issued their first stable post-fork release.

Upvotes: 1

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