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In modern Bourne shell derivatives (Bash, ksh, some POSIX shells), the command: set -o emacs Will give command line editing bindings compatible with Emacs (wh
by AdieuToLogic 11y ago
In modern Bourne shell derivatives (Bash, ksh, some POSIX shells), the command:
set -o emacs
Will give command line editing bindings compatible with Emacs (which is also the default editing keys in MS-Windows and many IDE's BTW).
HTH
- greggyb 11y agoEmacs bindings are not at all compatible with MS Windows.
- AdieuToLogic 11y agoYou're right. I had misremembered thinking that the control keys often exposed in various GUI's were the same as the cmd ones. Which they are not: http://ss64.com/nt/syntax-keyboard.html http://ss64.com/nt/syntax-keyboard.html Also, the original comment was on "console editors" and not on "command line editing", which is what I thought the subject was about. Looks like I struck out on the whole comment.