[Gllug] just a quick question

[Paul Rayner]

On 15 Feb 2006, at 20:28, Ian Northeast wrote:

> Nix wrote:
>
>> The particularly ridiculous thing is that this remains true on the
>> company's Linux boxes. Linux boxes using pdksh as an interactive shell
>> with the terminfo carefully broken so that arrow scrolling is broken,
>> *shudder*.
>
> One of my colleagues put "set -o vi" in root's profile on a bunch of 
> Linux boxes. This subtly breaks arrow scrolling - all is well except 
> that you cannot get past the end of the line, so you cannot append to 
> it or delete the last character.

This is how most of the user accounts I use (bash on RHEL) are set up. 
It was annoying until I discovered that Escape Shift A (append in vi) 
jumps you straight to the end of the line, just past the last 
character. Much better than pressing right arrow x times, but hardly 
obvious unless you use vi.

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