[Gllug] just a quick question

[Ian Northeast]

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. To be fair I think this was probably an 
error and he just copied the profile from the AIX/ksh systems he was 
porting the application from. It took me a little while to work out what 
was wrong here, it just didn't occur to me that he'd have done this.

Regards, Ian

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