Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 20:53:59 +0300 From: Tero Koskinen <tero.koskinen@iki.fi> To: Chris Sechiatano <chris@chris-s.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ksh Message-ID: <20040708205359.725747b3.tero.koskinen@iki.fi> In-Reply-To: <20040708164411.GA98262@chris-s.com> References: <20040708164411.GA98262@chris-s.com>
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On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 09:44:11 -0700 Chris Sechiatano <chris@chris-s.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I installed ksh on my 5.2.1 system. In my .profile I have: > > set -o vi > set -o vi-tabcomplete > > However, the 'set -o vi' doesn't seem to work. When I log in, ksh is still > in emacs mode. > > Anybody know how to make it work? Check your "$HOME/.shrc". By default there is line 'set -o emacs' and ksh executes that file after $HOME/.profile. I was bitten by the same problem and it took me a week to figure out what was going on, especially since on OpenBSD/NetBSD similar $HOME/.profile worked perfectly (I had no $HOME/.shrc there). -- Tero Koskinen - http://iki.fi/tero.koskinen/
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