Re: Es and autocompleting

[Bill Trost <trost@cloud.rain.com>]

Steve Kilbane writes:
    Similarly, in a windowing system, the window environment multiplexes
    the keystrokes and has to handle the edit stream, so why not let it
    do the completion magic too?  It can also provide history, do so
    across different windows for a single history file, and maybe even
    provide other command mechanisms, too.

In that vein, take a look at rk, the reactive keyboard.
http://www.cyberpass.net/~dummy/robert/software/rk.shtml claims to have
an up-to-dater copy, but I haven't tried the version there myself, yet.
It's actually based on pseudo-ttys, and therefore isn't constrained
to being used under a windowing system (I often use it over slogin or
dialup links).

Rk isn't about editing command lines or completion (although it does
that, too).  Rather, it uses your prior input to offer predictions about
what you want to type next.  If its predictions are right (and they
often can be), you can avoid lots and lots of typing.