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Old 07-16-2008
how to extend words on a command line ?
within a unix window, how do you setup your session to extend a word, by hitting the "esc" key twice.

e.g.

ls -la scri (esc key, esc key)

thankyou
# 2  
Old 07-16-2008
depends of your shell and OS...
HPUX with ksh and set -o vi, Esc Esc
AIX with ksh and set -o vi , Esc \ (backslash)
etc...
# 3  
Old 07-16-2008
hi, I've tried set -o vi
-o: bad option(s)

the shell i'm using is : echo $0
-sh

thanks
# 4  
Old 07-16-2008
export EDITOR=vi
...

But do you have a history file? HISTFILE
standard would be HISTFILE=~HOME/.sh_history
# 5  
Old 07-16-2008
export EDITOR=vi
EDITOR=vi: is not an identifier

HISTFILE is not set as well

Thanks
# 6  
Old 07-16-2008
Argh what OS are we dealing with?
so old sh syntax:
EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi (or wherever it is)
HISTFILE=$HOME/.sh_history
export EDITOR HISTFILE
# 7  
Old 07-16-2008
I've somehow got around this by, changing the shell to ksh, then typing
set -o emacs which now works fine.

Thanks
 
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