ksh history editing

[Wolf N. Paul]

ked at garnet.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber) writes:

 >>Not strictly true; my favorite editor is neither vi nor emacs, so to
 >>learn the ksh history would require me to "learn another set of editing
 >>commands just for the shell."  I haven't vigorously pursued switching
 >>to ksh, in part for this reason.
 >
 >The MKS Toolkit version of ksh for MSDOS allows you to specify
 >the editor to be used for command editing.
 >

 That is not the same as the standard command editing capability, which
 is built in and can be defined as either emacs or vi. The user-defined
 editor actually puts a line from history into a tmp file, edits it, and
 then submits it to the shell: this is MUCH slower than either the emacs
 or vi editing MODES of the shell.
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