I've been using a patch I made months ago. I haven't submitted it to
tech@ since I believe people actually want to keep it.
I can't post it at the moment because it's just on the CVS checkout
and I have other ksh changes that I have to split first.
On 8 January 2013 03:56, Jan Stary wrote:
> e.g. mutt:
>
> EDITOR Specifies the editor to use if VISUAL is unset.
> VISUAL Specifies the editor to use when composing messages.
If in vi mode and have set $VISUAL, it will be used when you
press v to edit the commandline in an editor. At least
On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 05:56:00PM +0100, Jan Stary wrote:
> On Jan 07 14:36:53, s...@spacehopper.org wrote:
> > On 2013-01-07, Sébastien Marie wrote:
> > >> What am I missing here? Can someone confirm this?
> > >
> > > You need to set your command-line editing mode to "emacs".
> > >
> > > In orde
On Jan 07 14:36:53, s...@spacehopper.org wrote:
> On 2013-01-07, Sébastien Marie wrote:
> >> What am I missing here? Can someone confirm this?
> >
> > You need to set your command-line editing mode to "emacs".
> >
> > In order to keep EDITOR to vi, you should set VISUAL to "emacs" in your
> > .pr
Hi,
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Sébastien Marie
wrote:
> It is the documented behaviour in ksh(1) :-)
>
> You could see the EDITOR variable comment in ksh(1):
Well, what can I say :-) It was late and I was tired or my english is
crap and didn't understand... ;-)
>
> EDITOR
>If the VISU
* Anthony J. Bentley [130107 18:44]:
> Stefan Sperling writes:
> > On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 02:09:01PM +0100, Lars von den Driesch wrote:
> > > However, I like vim and as soon as I set the EDITOR env variable to it
> > > the "arrow up/down" functionality is gone. In fact even if EDITOR is
> > > set
On 2013-01-07, Sébastien Marie wrote:
>> What am I missing here? Can someone confirm this?
>
> You need to set your command-line editing mode to "emacs".
>
> In order to keep EDITOR to vi, you should set VISUAL to "emacs" in your
> .profile:
>
> VISUAL=emacs
> EDITOR=vi
> export VISUAL EDITOR
Ma
On 07.01.2013 14:54, Sébastien Marie wrote:
In order to keep EDITOR to vi, you should set VISUAL to "emacs"
in your .profile:
VISUAL=emacs
EDITOR=vi
export VISUAL EDITOR
Thanks a lot. You just solved one of those small problems I've had for
years on all my OpenBSD systems. It was a pain in
Stefan Sperling writes:
> On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 02:09:01PM +0100, Lars von den Driesch wrote:
> > However, I like vim and as soon as I set the EDITOR env variable to it
> > the "arrow up/down" functionality is gone. In fact even if EDITOR is
> > set with "export EDITOR=" the functionality is gone
On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 02:09:01PM +0100, Lars von den Driesch wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just discovered a strange behaviour with ksh-history that I cannot
> explain. So I hope you can probably help. I read some man pages and
> used google but didn't find anything useful. If this is is just a RTFM
> p
On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 02:09:01PM +0100, Lars von den Driesch wrote:
> However, I like vim and as soon as I set the EDITOR env variable to it
> the "arrow up/down" functionality is gone. In fact even if EDITOR is
> set with "export EDITOR=" the functionality is gone. Commands typed in
> still appe
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