Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!emcard!sdba!stan
From: stan@sdba.UUCP (Stan Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Ksh cursor keys (Was: who uses which shells)
Message-ID: <267@sdba.UUCP>
Date: 31 May 88 18:01:57 GMT
References: <1887@mhres.mh.nl>
Organization: S. D. Brown & Assoc.  Atlanta, Ga
Lines: 23
Posted: Tue May 31 14:01:57 1988

> 
> Okay fellows, ksh is wonderfull. One of its most powerfull features is
> command line editing. You can use your familiar editor-style to edit them.
> 
> But WHY does ksh not allow cursor (=arrow) keys to be used? Vi does. Emacs
> does. Even VMS does it.
> 
> -- 
> Johan Vromans                              | jv@mh.nl via European backbone
> Multihouse N.V., Gouda, the Netherlands    | uucp: ..{uunet!}mcvax!mh.nl!jv
> "It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness"

	vi does not always allow use of the arrow keys.  For example
	on Fortune termials they send [Escape]]]letter][Cr]  this
	causes  it to pitch fits .

	stan



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