* Anthony J. Bentley <anth...@cathet.us> [130107 18:44]: > Stefan Sperling writes: > > On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 02:09:01PM +0100, Lars von den Driesch wrote: > > > However, I like vim and as soon as I set the EDITOR env variable to it > > > the "arrow up/down" functionality is gone. In fact even if EDITOR is > > > set with "export EDITOR=" the functionality is gone. Commands typed in > > > still appear in the history using "fc -l". I just cannot use the > > > arrow-keys. > > > > > > What am I missing here? Can someone confirm this? > > > > It's a silly ksh misfeature. ksh switches to vi editing mode as soon as > > vi is set as an editor. > > Well, that's one part of the problem. The other issue is that arrow keys > don't work in vi mode even though they probably should. >
I made a hack (vt220-compatible only) for anyone interested: http://plhk.ru/trash/ksh/0008-ksh-vi-arrow-keys-support.patch More funny diffs at http://plhk.ru/trash/ksh/ -- Alexander Polakov | plhk.ru
