On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Tobias Ulmer <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 02:43:42PM -0500, Chris Bennett wrote: >> This started for me a while back. >> Login as root, I can repeat older commands with up down arrows. >> History command shows history. >> >> su -l otheruser >> >> Cannot use up down arrows to access history. >> History command shows correct history. > > You most likely set EDITOR to something containing "vi". ksh parses that > and switches to vi mode. IMO it's a disgusting "feature", but that > appears to be just me. > > set -o emacs > set +o vi
after `set -o emacs`, the final line is redundant > >> >> Login remotely as otheruser. >> Same problem. >> >> Chris Bennett
