On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 02:43:42PM -0500, Chris Bennett wrote: > This started for me a while back. > Login as root, I can repeat older commands with up down arrows. > History command shows history. > > su -l otheruser > > Cannot use up down arrows to access history. > History command shows correct history.
You most likely set EDITOR to something containing "vi". ksh parses that and switches to vi mode. IMO it's a disgusting "feature", but that appears to be just me. set -o emacs set +o vi > > Login remotely as otheruser. > Same problem. > > Chris Bennett
