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From: guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: vms vs unix
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Date: Thu, 21-May-87 17:42:48 EDT
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> Ksh is not a standard component of 4bsd/Ultrix, but you can get it, and it
> does history editing using your choice of emacs or vi commands (unfortunately
> you lose filename completion via ESC, because emacs uses ESC a lot).

Well, not really; "ksh" can be tweaked so that, for example,
<ESC><ESC> and <ESC>^D in EMACS mode do what <ESC> and ^D do when
"filec" is set in the C shell.  (In "vi" mode, the problem doesn't
exist.)

> It uses arrow keys to move fore/backwards in the history list, and is
> not tied to vt100s.

Unfortunately, those two don't go together, unless you have "ksh"
figure out from a "termcap" or "terminfo" entry what the arrow keys
are.  Since it doesn't use "termcap" or "terminfo", it can't do so;
it would either have to have the arrow keys wired in or not use them,
and in this case it doesn't use them.  In EMACS mode, you use ^N and
^P to move up and down; in "vi" mode, you use "k" and "j".
	Guy Harris
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