Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 07:48:11 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com, lehey.pad@sni.de Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: using ddb to debug a double-panic? Message-ID: <199603122048.HAA04893@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> I still think that some standards are good, and the emacs characters >> have become something of a defacto standard for editing and history >> manipulation. I've seen the emacs bindings in everything from bash to >> the Motif text widget (as well as many others) and think that we should >> follow suit. I don't know about you guys, but ^P and ^N are now wired >> directly into my fingers! :-) >Seriously, Bruce (or anybody else): what kind of editing? The main >objection I have to vi-style editing in shells is that it is so >ESC-intensive. I suspect it's also more difficult to program, though Some of the emacs bindings are OK. I have ^P, ^N and ^R wired into my fingers too. Emacs bindings, or at least their implementation in libreadline, have problems with ESC too. E.g., escape sequences don't work while searching - hitting up arrow on an ANSI terminal terminates the search and enters [ A. Bruce
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