[ksh93-integration-discuss] ksh alpha source update

[Mario DeFazio]

I must confess (blissful) ignorance of the implications of standards like
POSIX, although I am aware that they exist :-).

However, when you state that my proposed tabtabcomp would be
"another rarely used option which does not improve the life of the normal users"
I guess that means that vi-mode users are not normal --
you are in favor of making the tab-tab completion feature the sole
province of emacs-mode users.

Then again, you may be completely correct in implying that vi-mode
users never use tab-tab in this manner.
I can't speak for others, by this vi-mode user never uses tab completion
at all -- it was invented long after I developed other difficult-to-break
typing habits! ;-).

Cheers,
   Mario

Martin Schaffstall wrote:

> On 6/19/06, Mario DeFazio <Mario.DeFazio at morganstanley.com> wrote:
> 
>> I was thinking that this new 'tabtabcomp' option would be an explicit 
>> flag
>> to set this one feature, regardless of the editing mode (vi or 
>> gmacs/emacs).
>> Of course for convenience (aka outreach to the bash user community :-))
>> '-o gmacs' could assume '-o tabtabcomp' unless '+o tabtabcomp' was set.
> 
> 
> I don't like that idea because to conform POSIX this switch needs to
> be off by default. And then we have another rarely used option which
> does not improve the life of the normal users unless someone reads the
> manual page completely.
> I think it is better to tie this function either into both emacs and
> gmacs mode as we now have ^V as general escape mode or add this to the
> gmacs mode exclusively. Adding more options is really not what we
> want, at least in my opinion.