ksh history editing

[Michael A. Petonic]

In article <10012 at tekecs.TEK.COM> andrew at frip.gwd.tek.com (Andrew Klossner) writes:
>
>	"What's beautiful is that you can use it with the command set
>	of your favorite editor, whether vi or emacs; there is no need
>	to learn another set of editing commands just for the shell."
>
>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.


Unfortunately, implementing ed as a command line editor for use
in the ksh was seen as pretty redundant to the c-shell.

:-)

-MikeP