On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 08:46:18PM -0500, Matthew Story wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Jilles Tjoelker <jil...@stack.nl> wrote: > > POSIX itself has gradually adopted ksh features, so seeing more of them > > in future is not unlikely. Most of the new language features in 9.0 are > > either from POSIX.1-2008 or on the roadmap for a new version of POSIX > > (in collaboration with other shell authors).
> Tab completion is a welcome addition, I was unaware that this had been (or > is slated to be) added to the POSIX specification. This makes far more > sense than my proposed explanations. Thanks for the clarification. Tab completion is not in POSIX and not planned to be (as far as I know), although there is some fairly ugly pathname completion functionality required in 'set -o vi' mode (we do not implement it). The reason is more like that I noticed that NetBSD had it and found someone willing to port it and add some small features (escaping special characters in what is inserted). In using /bin/sh as login shell on virtual machines (to avoid the need to install something else from ports), I have found the filename completion to be remarkably useful. -- Jilles Tjoelker _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
