On Wednesday 27 July 2005 04:23 pm, Paul de Weerd wrote: > On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 12:13:01PM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: > | 1) add the line > | umask 077 > | to .profile > > This breaks certain ports (as I found out the hard way) > > | 2)add the file .kshrc containing at least the line > | set -o vi > > Better to export VISUAL=vi in your .profile if that's what you prefer. > I don't think it's a good idea to change this default for all users -
I think that emacs editing mode can also be specified via the set option. > not everyone loves vi that much, some people find it annoying on the > commandline. Those people that prefer there shells in vi mode have the > option to export VISUAL=vi or set -o vi. > > From a wet What The Hack, > > Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
