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From: fozzy!fail@uunet.uu.net (Dennis Fail)
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Subject: Re: Ksh in cmdtool
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rvk@twitch.att.com (Robert V Kline) writes:

> [under Korn Shell]

>When I try the same thing in a cmdtool window, striking the escape key
>does not get me into an editing mode; some kind of representation of the
>escape key is echoed instead.

If you put 'set -o viraw' in your .profile, vi style command editing will
behave correctly in cmdtool.  I think there is also a compile time option
to build it into ksh,  it's documentted somewere but you have to dig for
it.  Took me a while to find it.

Hope this helps

Dennis Fail
Rockwell International
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