Bug 170719

Summary:	ksh loss of function - does not support vi-esccomplete option
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Larry Sturtz <lws49028>
Component:	ksh	Assignee:	Karsten Hopp <karsten>
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Description Larry Sturtz 2005-10-14 00:43:38 UTC

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Description of problem:
Users cannot use ESC-ESC for completion.  The vi-esccomplete was supported in
pdksh but is not supported in the "real" ksh.  This action was the default on
many commercial Unix ksh, including HP.  This is a very big loss of usability
and a great inconvenience for users.  Profiles copied from FC3 show this error.

Why was pdksh replaced by ksh anyway?  ksh is not an improvement, it is a
perceived solution to a non-existent problem.  

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ksh-20050202-1.i386

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. set -o vi-esccomplete
2.
3.
  

Actual Results:  bad option

Expected Results:  ESC-ESC should do command/filename completion

Additional info:

Worked around problem by installing FC3 pdksh.

Comment 1 Larry Sturtz 2006-04-01 15:05:52 UTC

Geez!  Is this just being ignored in the Bugzilla Black Hole???????

If this bug makes it to RHEL I'll be looking elsewhere.  Many HP-UX users are
accustomed to esc-esc.  Please bring back this functionality.

Comment 2 Karsten Hopp 2006-05-02 13:43:21 UTC

You need to report this problem upstream at
http://public.research.att.com/~gsf/download/ at the 'feedback' link.
This isn't something that we will address with an patch as this needs to be
decided by the Korn-Shell maintainer

Comment 3 Larry Sturtz 2006-05-21 16:53:17 UTC

Karsten, This is a total BS answer.

Upstream did not change anything--Fedora did!

Comment 4 Karsten Hopp 2006-05-22 08:50:58 UTC

No we didn't. Grab the sources from http://www.kornshell.com/, compile it without
any patches and check if ESC-ESC works. I'm quite sure it won't. 
According to ksh documentation ESC-ESC works only in emacs and gemacs mode.
Vi-mode has only ^I. We didn't patch this feature out.

Comment 5 Larry Sturtz 2006-05-24 11:07:44 UTC

Ah, yes, you did.  The pdksh package was replaced with ksh.  Thus, the loss of
functionality.  I didn't say you patched it out, but the results are the same. 
Check any release prior to FC4.  Guess you didn't even read my initial comment.