Ksh cursor keys (Was: who uses which shells)

Johan Vromans jv at mhres.mh.nl
Fri May 27 17:11:39 AEST 1988


Okay fellows, ksh is wonderfull. One of its most powerfull features is
command line editing. You can use your familiar editor-style to edit them.

But WHY does ksh not allow cursor (=arrow) keys to be used? Vi does. Emacs
does. Even VMS does it.

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