[techtalk] problems with VI

Fan, Laurel Laurel.Fan at compaq.com
Fri Jun 16 13:17:05 EST 2000


Nicoya Helm, nicoya at birch.net, said:
> However, the other day I
> switched from ksh to zsh. Now when I try to repeat past searches, 
> instead of recalling a previous string, up arrow inserts capital
> A,B,C,D, etc into my document. Talk about annoying!  It didn't start
> doing it till I switched shells, so I thought it might be related. (I
> haven't tried switching back to see if that's it,
> though.)

Wild guess here... zsh and ksh have different initialization files, so
if you were doing any terminal stuff (like maybe sttys or set TERM) in
those files (your . files or the global ones) for ksh, you probably
have to add them to your zsh files.







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