On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 10:01:24AM -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > (Damn! I clicked the wrong link in the confirmation notice. > Apologies.) > > For some time now, on both Ubuntu and Cygwin, "set -o vi" > is ineffective. > > The command is accepted and a query indicates it's in effect: > > \! $ uname -a > Linux Linux-Mac 2.6.38-11-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 29 19:05:14 UTC 2011 > i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux > \! $ set -o vi > \! $ set -o > Current option settings > ... > vi on > emacs off > ... > > But when I press ESC to enter command history, it simply > echoes the ESC as "^[" and calls the next command illegal: > > \! $ ^[ > dash: not found > > Thanks, > gil
I think this requires dash to be built with libedit support to work. Check your packages. Regards, -- # Petr Sabata
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