How to autocomplete at the KornShell command line with the vi editor
In the KornShell (ksh) on AIX UNIX Version 5.3 with the editor mode set to vi using: set -o vi What are the key-strokes at the shell command line to autocomplete a file or directory name? paxdiablo ESC\ works fine on AIX4.2 at least. One thing I noticed is that it only autocompletes to the unique part of the file name. So if you have the files x.txt, x171go and x171stop, the following will happen: Press keys: Command line is: x x <ESC>\ x 1 x1 <ESC>\ x171 g<ESC>\ x171go Brian Deterling Extending the other answers: <ESC>* will list all matching files on the command line. Then you can use the