Question

I’m trying to enable auto complete for the command line in emacs mode. When I try:

set -o emacs
bind '^I'=complete
bind '^I'=complete-list

and relog on, I get “bind command not found” error.

Is there any other way to tab-autocomplete in emacs mode, i.e. a tab completes to the first difference? If not, how do I install bindings in ksh?

Thanks

Answer 1

bind is Bash/readline-specific.

From the ksh faq,

Q6.     Does ksh support file name completion?
A6.     Yes, it does.  The default key binding is <ESC><ESC>
        however, starting with the 'g' point release, <TAB> also works
        for completion.  Note, the vi users need to set -o viraw
        in order to get <TAB> completion to work.

ksh93g was released in 1994-04-30, so I’m quite surprised if it doesn’t work for you… what’s your ksh version?