You wrote: > > Does your terminal simply generate a Ctrl-I for tab? > > It moves my cursor about 8 characters. Ctrl-L generates ^L . Ctrl-D exits > from that shell. UpArrow generates ^[[A .
If you run cat -T, then press <tab><enter><ctrl-d>, does it print ^I. If ^[[A for up arrow doesn't work then it sounds like something else is wrong. > I use terminaltype xterm-16color in my xterms. It does not help, if I > start ksh like this: Is this normal xterm and not something else like aterm, pterm, rxvt etc? > > You're only going to get filename completion in ksh if it is > > unambiguous. No nice zsh like lists of matches. Try <ESC><=> to list > > possible matches. > > That does not work. Have you modified /etc/profile? Is the ENV environment variable set to anything? Can you try the following: % ksh93 -p $ mkdir tmpdir $ cd tmpdir $ :> foo $ cat f<tab> > Yeah. You may need to add something like this to /etc/profile : > > case $SHELL in > *ksh*) Given that /etc/profile is only run for login shells, that wouldn't especially help. At the moment, there isn't anything I'd want to put in such a system startup file anyway. The pdksh package has managed well enough without one. Oliver ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
