korny

Something like plugin manager for kornshell

Requirements

• git (avoid apple crappy one, install one from nix or brew¹)
• ksh93 (Best option), pdksh or mksh(with limitations²).
• printf built-in to shell, or as external program

Tested OSes

• macOS
• SunOS
• FreeBSD and OpenBSD
• Linux should also work
• even Android

Installation

1. Change default shell to kornshell(if you have to):

   • which ksh - output will be path to ksh

   • Make sure that ksh is in /etc/shells, if there isn't, enter full path

   • chsh -s <PATH TO KSH>

2. Run: ksh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DesantBucie/korny/master/bin/install.ksh)"

3. Only ksh93u+m supports autocd, so note that.

4. Some systems may require setting export ENV=$HOME/.kshrc³ in ~/.profile or /etc/profile(don't forget to reboot).

Also mksh use .mkshrc, so you either rename .kshrc to .mkshrc, or use step above

Change prompt

Change line named PROMPT in ~/.kshrc to filename without extension i.e ibsd

Load plugins

By default you will load git_aliases and android plugins(plus base plugins starting with. _). Plugins with .ksh93, are for ksh93 only. To add plugin, just edit ~/.kshrc, enter it's filename

set -A plugins_array -- \
android git_aliases #Load plugins
load_plugs 

To see all plugins, check plugin folder.

Load completion

Completion works only in oksh, it is forked from ohmyksh

You load it the same way as plugins, in ~/.kshrc but istead of plugins-array load it in completion_array just below

Note that not all completions are crossplatform(i.e openbsd)

Update

Type: korn u or korn update

Uninstall

Type: korn rm or korn remove

Footnotes

1. This is why. ↩

2. As I tested it on NetBSD, there were problems with prompt loading if there were too many lines in PS1 variable. It cannot be fixed from this level most likely. ↩

3. You can set any path(and copy .kshrc there), for example i have it under export ENV="$HOME/.config/ksh/rc" ↩