On Sun, Aug 27 2017, Jan Stary <h...@stare.cz> wrote: > This is current/amd64. I am using ksh(1) as a shell. > Using ^R opens a search in the command history. > However, with 'export EDITOR=vi', pressing ^R > just literarily types '^R' and does not open > the history search. Is that expected?
EDITOR=vi puts the shell cli editor in vi mode, see EDITOR and VISUAL in the manpage. "Traditional" but quite annoying behavior. -- jca | PGP : 0x1524E7EE / 5135 92C1 AD36 5293 2BDF DDCC 0DFA 74AE 1524 E7EE
