On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 02:09:01PM +0100, Lars von den Driesch wrote: > Hello, > > I just discovered a strange behaviour with ksh-history that I cannot > explain. So I hope you can probably help. I read some man pages and > used google but didn't find anything useful. If this is is just a RTFM > please hit me with it :-) >
ready ? :-) > [...] > > However, I like vim and as soon as I set the EDITOR env variable to it > the "arrow up/down" functionality is gone. In fact even if EDITOR is > set with "export EDITOR=" the functionality is gone. Commands typed in > still appear in the history using "fc -l". I just cannot use the > arrow-keys. > It is the documented behaviour in ksh(1) :-) You could see the EDITOR variable comment in ksh(1): EDITOR If the VISUAL parameter is not set, this parameter controls the command-line editing mode for interactive shells. And as arrow-keys are not used by the 'vi'-like command-line editing... > What am I missing here? Can someone confirm this? You need to set your command-line editing mode to "emacs". In order to keep EDITOR to vi, you should set VISUAL to "emacs" in your .profile: VISUAL=emacs EDITOR=vi export VISUAL EDITOR -- Sebastien Marie
