@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.
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.
#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.
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.".
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.
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Justine Smithiesoksh 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
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