On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 07:22:27AM +0200, Matthias Kilian wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:00:28PM -0700, patrick keshishian wrote:
> > > Funny, I always disliked CTRL-A being taken by screen, since it was
> > > so handy to go back to the beginning of the command line in ksh.
> > > But then, I make a lot of typing errors at the beginning of command
> > > lines, I guess. :)
> > 
> > I agree. C-a always annoyed me in screen for the same reason as you
> > bring up: positioning to the beginning of the shell command. C-b is
> > almost as annoying in vi when i want to page up ;) ...
> 
> Some people should really give vi-mode in ksh a try ;-)

As a vi user I can't deal with it....

The reason being that you have to use j k to go up and down in the
history.  Life would be bliss if one could reassign the arrow keys.

> 
> Ciao,
>       Kili

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