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Mark Stewart
Mark Stewart

Reputation: 2098

ksh history not working on Linux

OK, I am a vi addict, and ksh user, and am addicted to command-line history editing using vi commands. I am now on a Linux server and even though I have ksh as my login shell, and have set and exported the following environment variables, my command line editing is acting like the bash shell.

Unix> uname -s -r -v -m -p -i -o
Linux 3.8.13-98.4.1.el7uek.x86_64 #2 SMP Wed Sep 23 18:34:15 PDT 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Select environment variables:

EDITOR=vi
ENV=/home/mark/.kshrc
FCEDIT=vi
HISTCMD=864
HISTCONTROL=ignoredups
HISTEDIT=vi
HISTFILE=/home/mark/.ksh_history
HISTFILESIZE=1000
HISTSIZE=1000

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1473

Answers (1)

Mark Stewart
Mark Stewart

Reputation: 2098

Hmmmm, when I saw ENV=/home/mark/.kshrc I don't remember creating that, so I looked in there and saw this:

# use emacs editing mode by default
set -o emacs

So I changed it to

set -o vi

and now I am happy!

Upvotes: 1

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