Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!cmcl2!phri!manhat!mancol!marob!daveh From: daveh@marob.MASA.COM (Dave Hammond) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Ksh cursor keys (Was: who uses which shells) Message-ID: <284@marob.MASA.COM> Date: 1 Jun 88 00:06:53 GMT References: <1887@mhres.mh.nl> Reply-To: daveh@marob.UUCP (Dave Hammond) Organization: 18th Street Construction Co NY NY Lines: 17 In article <1887@mhres.mh.nl> jv@mhres.mh.nl (Johan Vromans) writes: > >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. Ksh does not make use of any terminal-independent characteristics, such as cursor-keys. External editors are emulated using only newlines, returns and spaces to modify the edit line. Making use of cursor-keys also requires parsing multiple character sequences which would add some overhead. Dave Hammond UUCP: ...!marob!daveh --------------------------------