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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers ksh command line editing text being overwritten Post 302357859 by binlib on Wednesday 30th of September 2009 09:16:59 PM
Old 09-30-2009
You can hit esc-v to bring up the vi editor. Also could make your prompt reasonably short by displaying only the last few dirs.
 

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gtkhtml-editor-test

gtkhtml-editor-test(1)						   User Commands					    gtkhtml-editor-test(1)

NAME

       gtkhtml-editor-test - A simple html editor for libgtkhtml.

SYNOPSIS

       gtkhtml-editor-test

DESCRIPTION

       gtkhtml-editor-test  is	a  light-weight html editor for testing libgtkhtml-editor(3).  It contains all the features that libgtkhtml-editor
       provides. It can be used to create a message in plaintext or HTML format. These features are used by the evolution(1).  application.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWevolution-libs	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Volatile			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       evolution(1), libgtkhtml-editor(3), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.11							    28 Jul 2008 					    gtkhtml-editor-test(1)
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