From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 16 6:34:13 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1F1937B401 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 06:34:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from sumter.awod.com (sumter.awod.com [63.246.96.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E07E043EB2 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 06:34:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stanb@awod.com) Received: from teddy.fas.com (pcp01010481pcs.mplsnt01.sc.comcast.net [68.58.176.176]) by sumter.awod.com (8.8.7/8.12.2) with ESMTP id JAA50924 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 09:34:46 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from stanb@awod.com) X-Authentication-Warning: sumter.awod.com: User sandib [pcp01010481pcs.mplsnt01.sc.comcast.net] popped 123 seconds ago Received: from stan by teddy.fas.com with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18ZB5n-0001K5-00 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 09:34:03 -0500 Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 09:34:03 -0500 From: stan To: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Shell history in FreeBSD ksh (or ksh93) Message-ID: <20030116143403.GA4832@teddy.fas.com> Mail-Followup-To: Free BSD Questions list Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Editor: gVim X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux X-Kernel-Version: 2.4.17 X-Uptime: 09:20:56 up 4 days, 20:31, 1 user, load average: 0.12, 0.06, 0.01 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've been using ksh with the "vi" keybindings for several years now (changed from csh). I've even been able to get this working on former FreeBSD machines, by downloading the ksh from the ATT&T site. I've now got a 4.7 STABLE machine, and I'm trying to get this to work with either it's ksh, or ksh93 (which I thought would be the same as the ATT&T version, since it's code is now free). But so far I've not been able to get this to work. To be specific, what I want is to be able to press [ESC} and be in the ex (line mode) editor on the command history. I dragged over a set of . files from a working FreeBSD machine, that has the ATT&T version, but it's still not working on this machine. It's been _way_ too long since I set this up to remember how I got it working. Where should I start looking? What environment variables control this, and what should the be set to? Thanks for help on this. -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message