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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: <8009@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 3 Jun 88 21:02:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: brl-smok.8009
References: <15850@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <15850@brl-adm.ARPA> rbj@icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim) writes:
-> But WHY does ksh not allow cursor (=arrow) keys to be used? Vi does. Emacs
-> does. Even VMS does it.
-Arrow and function keys are for wimps. Real programmers use control keys.

A lot of us use mice for this.