Hi, On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Sébastien Marie <semarie-open...@latrappe.fr> wrote:
> It is the documented behaviour in ksh(1) :-) > > You could see the EDITOR variable comment in ksh(1): Well, what can I say :-) It was late and I was tired or my english is crap and didn't understand... ;-) > > EDITOR > If the VISUAL parameter is not set, this parameter controls > the command-line editing mode for interactive shells. > > And as arrow-keys are not used by the 'vi'-like command-line editing... > >> What am I missing here? Can someone confirm this? > > You need to set your command-line editing mode to "emacs". > > In order to keep EDITOR to vi, you should set VISUAL to "emacs" in your > .profile: > > VISUAL=emacs > EDITOR=vi > export VISUAL EDITOR Thanks, a lot for the help. This really solved it. Who would have guessed - one more time where the man pages proved to be right :-D Again, thanks for the help Lars
