Hi,
many thanks for answers and suggestion to:
Kurt Carlson
Steve VanDevender
Wayne Thompson
Alan
Matt Moore
Larry Griffith
Lombardi Emanuele
Jean-Francois Vibert
My problem was that I cannot use arrow keys ( or some combination
of keys ) to repeat previous command(s) and to move cursor on command
line. In my mail I forgot to write that I am using ksh, but in any case
I received a solution.
So, first group of answers suggest me to read man page. I, of
course, try that before I have mailed to managers.
Second group of answers suggest me just to change a shell, and in
most case advice to use tcsh. This is also solution of my problems, but
the question how to do that in ksh is still without answer.
The shortest and simplest solution, I obtained from Russ Fish:
in ~/.profile just add line: set -o emacs
And, with this simple command all start working, not just arrows,
but also jumping on beginning of command line, to end, etc...
Russ, special thanks to You.
Jim Williams also sent me a solution, but answer is not so simple
as Russ's. I am just coping his mail down:
>When running the Korn shell, I've got command recall/editing/scrolling
>by creating a .kshrc file and setting the ENV environment variable in
my
>.profile to source it at login. In the .kshrc file, I define a history
>file, the editor and command line editor values as well as a logout
>alias to clean up the history file on exit:
>
>in .profile add:
>ENV=./.kshrc
>
>in .kshrc:
>HISTFILE=~/.hist$$
>EDITOR=/usr/bin/emacs
>FCEDIT=/usr/bin/emacs
>alias logout='rm ~/.hist$$; exit'
>
>the $$ is the process id of the login shell & of course you'll need
>emacs installed as well.
That will be all. I obtained solution of my problem very quickly and
with a lot of possibilities.
Once more, thank You to all who help me.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Regards,
Denis Salihagic
Received on Wed Dec 23 1998 - 08:16:55 NZDT