Date: Wed, 13 Mar 96 17:59:42 MET From: Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de> To: erich@lodgenet.com (Eric L. Hernes) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org (Hackers; FreeBSD) Subject: Re: using ddb to debug a double-panic? Message-ID: <199603131703.SAA19490@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> In-Reply-To: <199603131458.IAA01244@jake.lodgenet.com>; from "Eric L. Hernes" at Mar 13, 96 8:58 am
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> > Greg Lehey writes: > >>>> 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 >>>> I don't suppose that's the real problem. If anybody has any >>>> alternatives to emacs-style bindings, please let me know a detailed >>>> description of how it should work. > > I'm definitly in favor of emacs-bindings, even the vi lovers here > hate the vi-mode in ksh,bash,... Noted. I suppose we'll find out if anybody disagrees with you :-) >>> 4) Abort key (^C): discard edits, new input line. >> >> OK, I suppose. > > kill (^u), even works when typing a passwd, I use this one lots. > werase (^w), this one is pretty handy too. I don't really want ^w, because other Emacs-like editors use this for deleting the region. Emacs would use Alt-D for this one; any other suggestions? > Oh, yea please remember that this is a kernel debugger, it's not > supposed to be too friendly :) Oops, in that case it won't be a good kernel debugger. Greg
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