Re: intent of tab-completion in /bin/sh in 9.0

2012-01-19 Thread Jilles Tjoelker
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 08:46:18PM -0500, Matthew Story wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Jilles Tjoelker wrote: > > POSIX itself has gradually adopted ksh features, so seeing more of them > > in future is not unlikely. Most of the new language features in 9.0 are > > either from POSIX.1-2

Re: intent of tab-completion in /bin/sh in 9.0

2012-01-19 Thread Matthew Story
forgot to reply-to list ... On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Matthew Story wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Jason Hellenthal wrote: > [...snip] > >> It would be nice if the completion made it down to 8.X. >> > > Agreed, on my 9.0 install, I have actually forgone my typical bash > instal

Re: intent of tab-completion in /bin/sh in 9.0

2012-01-18 Thread Jason Hellenthal
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 11:00:44AM -0500, Matthew Story wrote: > Just noticed that tab-completion in /bin/sh has been added in 9.0 (verified > that it is not there in 8.0, dunno if it's there in 8.2, could probably go > digging to figure it out). In addition to the command history via > : (which

Re: intent of tab-completion in /bin/sh in 9.0

2012-01-18 Thread Matthew Story
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Jilles Tjoelker wrote: > [...snip] > > On the contrary, our /bin/sh is minimalistic compared to many other > shells used in that role, like bash, pdksh, mksh and ksh93. It (the 9.0 > version) has only slightly more features than dash or NetBSD's sh, and > dash has

Re: intent of tab-completion in /bin/sh in 9.0

2012-01-18 Thread Jilles Tjoelker
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 11:00:44AM -0500, Matthew Story wrote: > Just noticed that tab-completion in /bin/sh has been added in 9.0 > (verified that it is not there in 8.0, dunno if it's there in 8.2, > could probably go digging to figure it out). In addition to the > command history via : (which i

intent of tab-completion in /bin/sh in 9.0

2012-01-18 Thread Matthew Story
Just noticed that tab-completion in /bin/sh has been added in 9.0 (verified that it is not there in 8.0, dunno if it's there in 8.2, could probably go digging to figure it out). In addition to the command history via : (which is present in 8.0) FreeBSD sh is now actually a pretty usable interactiv