On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:38:53 -0400 Richard Lowe wrote:
> Don Cragun wrote:
> [heavy snipping]
> > ksh93 itself does not set a default editing mode; it would be a
> > standards violation to do so. In an interactive shell, in-line editing
> > will be disabled, unless an in-line editing option is set by one of the
> > configuration files read when the shell is invoked, or is set
> > explicitly by the user.
> Using the ksh93 tarball provided by the ksh93-integration project, this
> appears to not be true. Without the provided ksh.kshrc present, it
> defaults to vi-style editing.
with all of the
{ profile rc $ENV $EDITOR $HISTEDIT $VISUAL $FCEDIT }
files/env-vars flying around one must be wary of absolutes
try
env - path-to-ksh93 --norc
set -o
and you should see all edit modes off
-- Glenn Fowler -- AT&T Research, Florham Park NJ --
