Subject: Re: ksh [was: Re: miniroot for NetBSD/i386?]
To: Igor Sobrado <igor@string1.ciencias.uniovi.es>
From: Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@cs.stevens.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/13/2005 10:28:48
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Igor Sobrado wrote:
> It seems that VISUAL changes the behaviour of the Korn shell on Solaris,
> it does not only set the visual editor to be used but also the shell
> behaviour. We can play again with the server of the Geological Sciences
> Department:
From ksh.1 (on Solaris 9/x86):
EDITOR
If the value of this variable ends in emacs, gmacs, or
vi and the VISUAL variable is not set, then the
corresponding option (see the set special command
below) will be turned on.
So I'm afraid this is even sort of documented. I'd still say it's a bug
too, but after people shouted at me when pointing out that pax was doing
the right thing to chmod 777 files that copied symlinks were ointing to,
what do I know. :)
- Hubert