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Re: ksh has no 'up arrow' command recall

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Date: Sunday, March 7, 1993 - 7:17 pm

In article <1993Mar7.055707.8111@victrola.sea.wa.us>, vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan) writes:
|> 
|> I've switched to the ksh to stop the core dump problem
|> with bash and the 4.3 libs (yes, I know about the fix
|> but I'm waiting for SLS to roll it in) and noticed that
|> there's no "up arrow" command history recall in it.
|> 
|> Bash had it...you can hit the up arrow to roll through
|> the past commands and hit return to execute it (neat!).
|> Is that a Bash feature really or is it lack of a feature in ksh ?
|> 
|> 
|> -- 
|>      ---------- Vince Skahan --------- vince@victrola.sea.wa.us ----------
|>                      +++ A Waffle Iron - Linux Division +++


I believe ksh supports both vi and emacs style history. I think the
default is vi mode. Set it to emacs mode. Try

set -o emacs

 
H.J.
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