Re: Man pages ksh.

["Denis A. Doroshenko" <cyxob@tipas.lt>]

being vi maniac, i use pdksh's vi+vi-tabcomplete mode and never tried 
emacs mode, but anyway... 
here i just wanted to add, that it is better to add 'set -o xxx' 
commands to env file (pointed by ENV environment variable) so this way 
the options get set up in every subshell you start. 
pdksh supplied with OpenBSD rocks badly, when i work with sinix/hp-ux/aix i 
flame their ``friendly shells'' almost in non-stop mode...

On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Nilsson?= wrote:
> 
> Subject: Man pages ksh. Date: Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 09:29:53AM +0200 Quoting Majestic One (mirror.world@usa.net):
> > Hello!
> > 
> > How would I begin writing man pages?
> > 
> > Some time ago Theo de Raadt made a comment about ksh being superior to 
> > bash. Beeing a bash man i tried ksh out but have yet to discover the 
> > command line editing.
> 
> You FSF Sissy! :-)
>  
> > So half of my question is how do I get command line editing in ksh?
> 
> set -o emacs in .profile or invoke ksh as 'ksh -o emacs' (won't work in
> /etc/passwd so is most usable for manual invocations when given abomina-
> tions like csh as shell.)
> 
> Then, you can run the command line as in Emacs, with Ctrl-{a|e|k|f|b|p|n}:
> 
> a	Home
> 
> e	End
> 	
> k	Kill from cursor to End
> 
> b	Left one char
> 
> f	Right one char
> 
> p	Previous (in history)
> 
> n	Next (in history)
> 
> These are the ones present in my memory right now. There might be more. 
> 
> I have modified some bindings on AIX and Solaris to mimic Bash:
> 
> set -o emacs
>  
> alias __A=`echo "\020"`         # pil upp = ^p = föregående i historia
> alias __B=`echo "\016"`         # pil ner = ^n = nästa i historia     
> alias __C=`echo "\006"`         # pil höger = ^f = ett tecken framåt på raden
> alias __D=`echo "\002"`         # pil vänster = ^b = ett tecken bakåt på raden
> alias __H=`echo "\001"`         # home = ^a = början på raden      
> 
> (sorry for the swedish) 
> 
> Anyway, this enables (on those machines, and also in ssh to them) arrow keys
> and Home as they would be expected to work. IIRC the console termcap (pcvt?)
> doing this automatically. I am only able to try that in an xterm now, lesseee..
> Yep! arrow keys work in ksh on 2.5 release, providing you have the emacs op-
> tion set. 
> 
> Search on "Emacs interactive input line editing" in the manpage for ksh. 
> 
> > And the other half is how would I write a man page/man page update or 
> > should I simply write a .txt "KSH for the stupid"?
> 
> It is in the man page. 
> 
> -- 
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> 
> Can I have an IMPULSE ITEM instead?
> 

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