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From: paul@cacilj.UUCP (Paul Close)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: Re: BASH Input Editing
Message-ID: <1147@cacilj.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jul 89 16:50:15 GMT
References: <760:martin.walter@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.dbp.de>
Reply-To: paul@cacilj.UUCP (Paul Close)
Distribution: gnu
Organization: CACI Products Company, La Jolla, CA
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In article 760, martin.walter writes:

>Now I wanted to map the editing features to my sun keyboard.
>But it seems to me that I have no chance to use the multi-
>character keys like R1=\E[208z, R2=\E[209z and so on.

[...]

>Input editing is the important advantage over /bin/sh. So
>if I can not use my keyboard, bash is not very useful to me.

I agree.  Especially when it comes to arrow keys.  When I use emacs, I *never*
mess around with ^N, ^F, ^B, ^P -- I use the arrow keys!  (I get hopelessly
confused because ^F moves point to the right, but is actually to the *left* of
^B which moves left....)  This is the main reason I use vi mode in the Korn
shell.  Also, for us Korn shell users, it would be nice if the "r" command was
implemented.  i.e. "r v" is equivalent to "!v" and "r" is equivalent to "!!".
Easier to type, too.

So please include arrow keys!  Function keys would be nice, too.
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