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Old 09-30-2009
ksh command line editing text being overwritten
hi. i'm using ksh with set -o vi. if i am far down in a directory and try to edit the command line (esc-k to retrieve previous command) the cursor is being positioned over to the left on top of the directory text making the text very difficult to read or work with. seems to be problem with long command strings as well (ex: cp with long directory names). any suggestions? thanks!
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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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Old 10-01-2009
On my ksh it's "esc" "k" "v" to bring up "vi". Then ":wq!" to end "vi" and execute the command. If you don't want to execute the command, blank it before doing ":wq! .
 
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