Monday, July 29, 2024

Re: doas tab completion

On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 12:42:04AM +0200, Alexander Hall wrote:
> In this specific case, I believe
>
> $ alias doas='doas ' # Note the space
>
> might have done the trick as well, for ksh at least.
>
> /Alexander
>

is that correct? as far as i know, adding a space after an alias is used
to get the shell to expand the next item as an alias as well, not
shell/tab expansion.

jmc

> On July 29, 2024 7:30:57 PM GMT+02:00, Robert Palm <developer@robert-palm.de> wrote:
> >Thanks a lot for sharing all this great solutions!
> >
> >Am 29. Juli 2024, 17:37, um 17:37, Stuart Henderson <stu.lists@spacehopper.org> schrieb:
> >>On 2024-07-29, Robert Palm <developer@robert-palm.de> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> wonder how I can get TAB completion in the shell when using doas ...
> >>>
> >>> Do I need to add something to .profile ?
> >>
> >>pkg_add dmenu, then you can add this:
> >>
> >>set -A complete_doas `dmenu_path`
> >>
> >>(note it will not update automatically if a new program is installed;
> >>either restart the shell, or re-run the 'set' command)
> >
>

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