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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Ksh cursor keys (Was: who uses which shells)
Message-ID: <7987@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 28 May 88 18:58:26 GMT
References: <1887@mhres.mh.nl>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1887@mhres.mh.nl> jv@mhres.mh.nl (Johan Vromans) writes:
>But WHY does ksh not allow cursor (=arrow) keys to be used?

Different terminal transmit different sequences when an arrow key is
pressed.  Assuming that ksh allows user-specified editing key bindings,
as the BRL Bourne shell does, you CAN use arrow keys.

#	.shbind -- source to bind history/editing keypad keys
# following to support ANSI terminal keypads (e.g. VT100):

bind prefix-2 '^[O'
bind prefix-2 '^[['

bind up-history '^XA'
bind down-history '^XB'
bind forward-char '^XC'
bind backward-char '^XD'
bind beginning-of-line '^XH'