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Old 04-05-2005
Command line traversal
What is a key, if on command line I have to trverse left & right word by word, instead of character by character?
# 2  
Old 04-05-2005
I have found it -

Esc + w = fwd traversal
Esc + b = bwd traversal
# 3  
Old 04-05-2005
I tend to run my command line in vi mode via, 'set -o vi'. It removes the need for the Esc and all vi's wonderful shortcuts work.

Keith
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Old 04-05-2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by kduffin
I tend to run my command line in vi mode via, 'set -o vi'. It removes the need for the Esc and all vi's wonderful shortcuts work.
Agreed Smilie (Except you still need to press Esc to get into "command mode" Smilie)

With vi mode, you can use e, b and w to traverse the line by word, and then h and l to move char by char....

Cheers
ZB
# 5  
Old 04-05-2005
Good point Smilie
# 6  
Old 06-03-2005
this works great in ksh, but in csh it is not working.

i used setenv -o vi, which is ok, but then when I use esc on the command line i get ^[

any ideas?
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Old 06-03-2005
Use tcsh instead, and then type

bindkey -v

If you like it, add it to your shell's initialisation files....

Cheers
ZB
 
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