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Top Forums Programming KSH command completions. Post 302518419 by Surendra_Singh on Friday 29th of April 2011 02:52:02 PM
Old 04-29-2011
KSH command completions.
I want to do the Auto command completion in ksh for my product's CLI. For that I am using the key binding mechanism. But am stuck at following points.

1. I am not able to use .sh.edtext variable while KEYBD trap. As I know this variable contains Characters in the input buffer during a KEYBD trap. But in my script, this variable is always NULL. Can you please tell me How can I get the content of input buffer in my script.
2. If somehow I get the input buffer in my script then I have to compute the next possible completions based on the input buffer. Now:
A. If there is only completion.
In this case I have to append this to input buffer and put this new string on command prompt. How can I replace the content of command prompt with new string?
B. If there are more than 1 possible completion:-
I have to show all completions below the command prompt. This I can do with print command. Is there any other ways to do this.

I am using the following script for key bind:-
-------------------------------
typeset -A Keytable
trap 'eval "${Keytable[${.sh.edchar}]}" && VX_COMMAND=${.sh.edtext}' KEYBD
function keybind # key [action]
{
typeset key=$(print -f "%q" "$2")
case $# in
2) Keytable[$1]="$key"
;;
1) unset Keytable[$1]
;;
*) print -u2 "Usage: $0 key [action]"
return 2 # usage errors return 2 by default
;;
esac
}

export VX_COMMAND
keybind $'\Ew' function.sh #I want to bind Alt+w with function.sh and want to use input buffer in function.sh.
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I didn't found these answers with GOOGLE.
 

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vconsole.conf

VCONSOLE.CONF(5)						   vconsole.conf						  VCONSOLE.CONF(5)

NAME

       vconsole.conf - configuration file for the virtual console

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/vconsole.conf

DESCRIPTION

       The /etc/vconsole.conf file configures the virtual console, i.e. keyboard mapping and console font.

       The basic file format of the vconsole.conf is a newline-separated list environment-like shell-compatible variable assignments. It is
       possible to source the configuration from shell scripts, however, beyond mere variable assignments no shell features are supported,
       allowing applications to read the file without implementing a shell compatible execution engine.

       Note that the kernel command line options vconsole.keymap=, vconsole.keymap.toggle=, vconsole.font=, vconsole.font.map=,
       vconsole.font.unimap= may be used to override the console settings at boot.

       Depending on the operating system other configuration files might be checked for configuration of the virtual console as well, however only
       as fallback.

OPTIONS

       The following options are understood:

       KEYMAP=, KEYMAP_TOGGLE=
	   Configures the key mapping table of for they keyboard.  KEYMAP= defaults to us if not set. The KEYMAP_TOGGLE= can be used to configured
	   a second toggle keymap and is by default unset.

       FONT=, FONT_MAP=, FONT_UNIMAP=
	   Configures the console font, the console map and the unicode font map.  FONT= defaults to latarcyrheb-sun16.

EXAMPLE

       Example 1. German keyboard and console

       /etc/vconsole.conf:

	   KEYMAP=de-latin1
	   FONT=latarcyrheb-sun16

SEE ALSO

       systemd(1), loadkeys(1), setfont(8), locale.conf(5)

AUTHOR

       Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
	   Developer

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