Subject: Re: ksh bugs and behaviour questions
To: Thomas Klausner <wiz@danbala.ifoer.tuwien.ac.at>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 12/17/2002 20:42:31
[ On Wednesday, December 18, 2002 at 02:12:18 (+0100), Thomas Klausner wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: ksh bugs and behaviour questions
>
> On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 04:58:25PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > > . <UP><DOWN> doesn't give back an empty line
> > >   bash does this; ksh remains on the last line in the history
> > 
> > That's a good thing!  :-)  (^U is your friend here)
> > 
> > (ksh93 is quite broken -- I'm not sure how to describe its behaviour)
> 
> I tried it, it gives back an empty line, but additionally emits a bell.

Well, sometimes that's what it does, but certainly not always!  ;-)

Just as often for me it jumps back into some early part of the history
buffer (especially/only? if you have a history file), but I could never
relibably predict exactly where it would jump.

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