Lmst

@rl_dane hit the nail on the head.

This isn't really specific to completion. It's just general overlong input line editing behaviour.

The PD #KornShell and its derivatives (e.g. the #MirBSD Korn Shell) only have line editing with a single line that sideways scrolls.

ksh93, however, has a
set -o multiline
option for switching to a multiple-line line editing mode. (The Z and Bourne Again shells have similar.)

You might like the Watanabe shell. It's in ports.

@magicant
#UnixShells

@rl_dane

I was curious as to what this meant, so I fired up PD ksh and tried what I thought long command-prompt entries meant.

The PD #KornShell uses a column width greater than the terminal width (which I set to 50 columns here, just to make things easier) because it SPC-pads everything to the length of the longest string; and ends up double-spacing most rows in the table as a consequence.

I couldn't figure out how to get it to specifically clip rows, though.

@rqm
#UnixShells

A white on black terminal screen dump showing ksh being run, 'akonadi_m' being typed and then command name completion (with Control+F) expanding that into a 2 column table of 5 commands that is line wrapped at column 50.

#Illumos has another #wordexp implementation (originating with Mortice-Kern, no less!) that expects a Korn (93) shell and uses its printf (and set -o), which might be tweakable to function with #OpenBSD's PD Korn shell; but like the GNU C library licence the Sun CDDL would likely be a problem.

https://code.illumos.org/plugins/gitiles/illumos-gate/+/refs/heads/master/usr/src/lib/libc/port/regex/wordexp.c

So if one is looking for "easily", where one just imports a compatibly-licenced and #KornShell-compatible existing implementation, the answer seems to be "No.".

#pdksh

Just dropped oksh-7.7, get it from the usual place: https://github.com/ibara/oksh

#unix #linux #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #shell #ksh #kornshell #opensource #freesoftware

Calling all oldheads who worked with UUCP. I was flipping through an old O'Reilly book of mine and found this. Being younger, I never used UUCP, so forgive me if I understand poorly, but basically UUNET, as an ISP, had publicly accessible UUCP servers that they treated like FTP, correct?

That's cool and all, but what I wanna know is if there's any more such services available these days. I'm fascinated by UUCP and need an excuse to try it.

#UUCP #UUNET #OReillyMedia #KornShell #Unix #FOSS

A page screenshot from O'Reilly Media's "Learning the Korn Shell" by Bill Rosenblatt. The page shows a command example of how you would've acquired a copy of the Korn Shell over UUCP via the old internet service provider UUNET (long since defunct, ergo the command is useless today, since UUNET no longer exists and this book was published in 1993). Around the command, I have edited a red oval to highlight and draw more attention to it (the YouTuber method) in GIMP.

Who knew ? I'm actually managing surprisingly well using vi mode in my Korn shell and it's starting to stick in the old grey cells too. I am quite impressed with myself. 😄
Only one issue and that's to stay away from the arrow keys. Hmmm what are they for now. 🤣
#FreeBSD #OKSH #KornShell

Well I'm still daily driving #KornShell aka oksh after getting 20 plus years used to bash and I'm really liking using it. I can honestly say it's a work in progress but I'm learning as I go along and loving it. This feels unixy to me. #RunBSD #FreeBSD