On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Gerhard S. wrote:

> if I change the root default shell to bash. So now I end up
> typing bash or ksh set -o emacs after every su. Not very friendly.
So put it into root's .profile.  Not exactly hard work.

> Why do this not work out of the box? Now it has all this eye candy

Backwards compatibility.  In Solairs land, it is not acceptable
to break backwards copmpatibility "just because".

> like that. Every user has the right for working cursor keys.

So says you. Personally, I prefer to use the vi editing keys.
But Solaris gives us a choice, so why complain?  If you want
bash, use bash!  Meanwhile, I'll carry on using ksh, and we'll
both be happy.  Choice is good.

> How about linking the command editing library
> that is used in zoneadm and other tools into /bin/sh ?

Because then it would no longer the Bourne Shell.

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