On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 10:01:47AM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: > 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.
Weird, its that which I miss most when I get to an unconfigured shell. First thing is shoot set -o vi and enjoy. And before you shout dvorak, I also used this on qwerty-days :-)
