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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: jkh@time.cdrom.com, lehey.pad@sni.de
Subject: Re: using ddb to debug a double-panic?
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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