thanks for your answer Perderabo, but there is a way to work with that list, but i still don't know how
(BTW, funny workaround
)
the sequence i found would be [ESC][=]<number>[=], but for any strange reason, it is only working in some ksh versions....
i've tried it with the default ksh in solaris (/usr/bin/ksh) which is a ksh88 (Version M-11/16/88i) and it doesn't work.
so i've tried it in the ksh93 version of solaris (/usr/dt/bin/dtksh; Version M-12/28/93d, ksh93 + X, Xt, Xm and CDE functions). with the ksh93 that [ESC][=] also list matching executables from $PATH and shell functions(), but the select trick still doesn't work.
so i had a look on my gentoo box and compiled the newest version of pdksh (PD KSH v5.2.14-r4 99/07/13.2, no USEFLAGS only CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -msse2 -mfpmath=sse -mmmx"), the list also comes up with $PWD, $PATH and f() but no luck with the selection. tried the same pdksh version on a BSD box, no luck....
B U T :
it is working in a pdksh on slackware (Version M 1993-12-28).... i found another ksh version in the solaris
bolthole package tree, installed it, and guess what, it works with that ksh (Version M 1993-12-28 n+). i don't know what that "n+" stands for, but that would let me think about an environment settings or an profile setting, but looking at the "set" output i cannot find special settings....
anyone know how i could enable this behavior?
regards pressy