Two very basic questions about readline(3) and indent(1)

[Prevet]

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[ibara]

Originally Posted by Prevet

Q1) I'm using rlwrap with ed(1) and want to add tabs while I'm editing. Since tab is used for completions I have altered my .inputrc file, so a tab character is inserted if ctrl-t is pressed, which is not the greatest. So I thought I'd ask if anyone here that uses readline with a CLI editor, can suggest a better alternative keypress, to get around the fact that the tab key is already taken.

Tab is ^I

[ip6ix]

According to style(9), the OpenBSD kernel source uses KNF (Kernel Normal Form) coding style, which is also referred to in the source for the indent(1) program in the OpenBSD base install. (See /usr/src/usr.bin/indent/README.)

So it's possible, likely even, that the default state for indent(1) is to reformat to KNF style without needing an ~/.indent.pro file at all.

I tested it on a couple of C source files I had lying around and the results look correct, but I'm not familiar enough with the KNF style to say for definite. Might be worth a shot though.