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- From: brent@uwovax.uwo.ca (Brent Sterner)
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- Subject: Re: AIX, ksh, and <esc> sequence line editing - ksh bug?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.133525.1@uwovax.uwo.ca>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 17:35:25 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.013314.22968@candle.uucp>, root@candle.uucp (Bruce Momjian) writes:
- >
- > This is not covered in many ksh manuals. By setting emacs mode
- >
- > set -o emacs
- >
- > then adding to your .kshrc or ENV-pointed file:
- >
- > alias __A=^P
- > alias __B=^N
- > alias __C=^F
- > alias __D=^B
- >
- > where ^P is really a control-P. This does the trick. It seems __X
- > means <esc>[X, so other aliases for other keys are also possible.
-
- Bruce, thanks. I also received notice of an apparent aix ksh bug:
-
- On Wed, 23 Dec 1992 "Matthew T. Russotto" <russotto@eng.umd.edu> said:
- >You've run into a known-- and fixed-- bug in AIX ksh. Sorry, I'm not
- >at work so I can't give you the PTF number.
-
- So, I'm awaiting the patch number. Thanks to everyone who has been
- contributing to this one. b.
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