On 6/6/06, Josh Hurst <joshhurst at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've tried my luck of ksh93r (the standalone binary from AT&T
> downloads) as user login shell.
> To make things more comfortable I added the following lines to my
> ~/.profile (I think Roland Manz wrote these lines):
> ----X-CUT-HERE-X--------X-CUT-HERE-X--------X-CUT-HERE-X----
> # TABTAB completion mod by Roland Manz
> emacs_completion_tab_count=0
> function emacs_completion
> {
> if [[ ${.sh.edchar} == "$(printf "\t")" ]] then
> emacs_completion_tab_count=$((emacs_completion_tab_count + 1))
>
> if [ $emacs_completion_tab_count -eq 1 ] ; then
> .sh.edchar="$(printf "\E\E")"
> elif [ $emacs_completion_tab_count -ge 2 ] ; then
> .sh.edchar="$(printf "\E=")"
> fi
> else
> emacs_completion_tab_count=0
> fi
> }
>
> trap emacs_completion KEYBD
> set -o emacs
> ----X-CUT-HERE-X--------X-CUT-HERE-X--------X-CUT-HERE-X----
> After log in into CDE ksh93 works very well - except that the TABTAB
> mod only works for Console type terminals but not work the normal CDE
> terminal windows.
> Does anyone have an explanation for this? Bug or feature?
The profile scripts are only read by login shells, unfortunately
Dtterm does not treat all shells as login shells. Pls try whether
adding "Dtterm*LoginShell: true" to your $HOME/.Xdefaults file solves
the problem.
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