RE: [ksh emulation] zle and bindkey commands not available when called from /etc/kshrc

["Tristan TERPELLE" <tristan.terpelle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Stephenson [mailto:pws@xxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Thursday 10 September 2009 11:57
> To: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ksh emulation] zle and bindkey commands not available when called from /etc/kshrc
> 
> On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:37:24 +0200
> "Tristan TERPELLE" <tristan.terpelle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> When I use zsh' ksh emulation mode, the following lines in /etc/kshrc
>> result in errors:
>>
>> autoload -Uz edit-command-line
>> zle -N edit-command-line
>> bindkey -M vicmd 'v' edit-command-line
>>
>> The errors are:
>>
>> /etc/kshrc:4: command not found: zle
>> /etc/kshrc:5: command not found: bindkey
>> /etc/kshrc:4: command not found: zle
>> /etc/kshrc:5: command not found: bindkey
>> /etc/kshrc:4: command not found: zle
>> /etc/kshrc:5: command not found: bindkey
> 
> When it starts up in ksh emulation, zsh doesn't arrange to load modules
> with its own extensions automatically when they are accessed by command
> names, so that the names of the builtins don't clash.  It's probably worth
> pointing out that zsh isn't really designed to do it's own clever
> extensions in other emulations---they're there as an alternative, to make
> it easier to use stuff written for other shells.  So you're going a bit
> beyond the design criteria.  However, there are usually ways of fixing
> things up.
> 
> For an interactive shell you can load the zle module by hand:
> 
> zmodload zsh/zle
> 
> (if you have an older version of zsh, not a recent 4.3 release, use
> "zmodload -i zsh/zle" to avoid an error if the module was already loaded).
> This is slightly simpler than the code it's replacing, actually, which
> would mark the command zle and bindkey for autoloading---however, if you're
> about to call the commands anyway, that's pointless.
> 
> You might encounter similar problems with completion, if you're using
> that, and need to load the modules zsh/complete and zsh/computil.  I'm not
> sure how well the completion system is set up to be called from ksh
> emulation.
> 

Hi Peter


The zmodload zsh/zle command works beautifully! I've added the following lines 
to /etc/kshrc

autoload -Uz edit-command-line
zmodload -i zsh/zle
bindkey -M vicmd 'v' edit-command-line



Thanks for the help!


Regards


Tristan Terpelle

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