[ksh93-integration-discuss] ksh alpha source

[Roland Mainz]

Glenn Fowler wrote:
> dgk and I rolled in most of the patches from the last few months
> we're posting alpha source to catch glaring errors/omissions
> before a wider post
>
>   http://www.research.att.com/~gsf/download/alpha/INIT.2006-05-30.md5
>   http://www.research.att.com/~gsf/download/alpha/INIT.2006-05-30.tgz
>   http://www.research.att.com/~gsf/download/alpha/ast-ksh.2006-05-30.md5
>   http://www.research.att.com/~gsf/download/alpha/ast-ksh.2006-05-30.tgz

IMO there are four issues (compared to "ksh93r"):
- It would be nice to include the patch from
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ksh93-integration-discuss/2006-May/000346.html
(which adjusts the paths of all builtin commands to be as compatible as
possible to the native Solaris versions) as Solaris-only patch
- "mkservice" still seems to be defunct
- TAB following a TAB-TAB does not work in "emacs" mode. Instead a
second TAB-TAB is required to refresh the results (for comparisation:
readline/bash only needs one TAB after a TAB-TAB to refresh the results)
- "gmacs" mode's TAB completion works like "emacs" mode and not like
readline/bash, e.g. TAB in a middle of a string does not try to complete
the left side nor is CTRL-V recognised as general sequence to enter any
other character (like ESC or TAB). The patch for that was in
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ksh93-integration-discuss/2006-May/000354.html
(please ignore the CTRL-L/|system("clear")| horror :-) ) ...

Beyond that point it seems to work very well... keep up that good
work... :-)

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Bye,
Roland

P.S.: CC:'ing Ienup Sung...
...Ienup: Could you make test binaries from the source tarballs above,
please ?

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