On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Gerhard S. wrote: > That's fine. But why does /bin/sh not just implement > command line editing? It's not that cursor key support
Because then it wouldn't be the Bourne Shell! Solaris takes backwards compatibility more seriously than other OSes... > Also why are the cursor keys not enabled in ksh by > default? set -o emacs works, but shouldn't be necessary. Because some (most?) peeople would prefer vi bindings? > And I was pretty shocked of cursor keys not working > reliably in vi after I installed OpenSolaris first. Maybe I'm spoiled, but I Heh. Us old vi hands know that using hjkl is better than using curor keys. I learned that lesson in college nearly 20 years ago. (That is, I started using the cursor keys but kept getting escape sequences. It wasn't too long before I learned the proper methods of moving the cursor.) > > y reasons, but as a user, I make my shell /bin/bash. > > I suspect everybody does so why not just make this You suspect wrongly. Many of us prefer ksh. -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
