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From: Tero Koskinen <tero.koskinen@iki.fi>
To: Chris Sechiatano <chris@chris-s.com>
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On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 09:44:11 -0700
Chris Sechiatano <chris@chris-s.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I installed ksh on my 5.2.1 system.  In my .profile I have:
> 
> set -o vi
> set -o vi-tabcomplete
> 
> However, the 'set -o vi' doesn't seem to work.  When I log in, ksh is still
> in emacs mode.
> 
> Anybody know how to make it work?

Check your "$HOME/.shrc". By default there is line 'set -o emacs' and ksh
executes that file after $HOME/.profile.

I was bitten by the same problem and it took me a week to figure out what
was going on, especially since on OpenBSD/NetBSD similar $HOME/.profile
worked perfectly (I had no $HOME/.shrc there).

-- 
Tero Koskinen - http://iki.fi/tero.koskinen/