[Techtalk] multiple lines in the prompt

Sara Falamaki saraf at cse.unsw.edu.au
Sun Mar 30 17:01:30 EST 2003


On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 11:51:34AM +1000, Carlo Hamalainen wrote:
> I've had the same thing happen on my xterms and aterms, and it's quite
> frustrating! Typically I've found it when I up-arrow back to a long
> command and try to edit something near the start.
> 
> Does anyone know how to stop this behaviour?
bindkey -e

(sets emacs keybindings, instead of vi, put it in your .$(shell)rc
to make permanent)

hth,
sara
> 
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