Hans Aberg wrote:
> Is there a way by which one can change the command line editor in various
> shells, or is it built in with the shell? The quesion is to find a Unicode
> capable editor for selected shells (like tcsh, bash, etc.). The Korn shell
> (ksh) seems to be Unicode capable, but other shells not.

Do you mean `set -o emacs' and `set -o vi' respectively?

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"mgrd" wrote:

> Hans Aberg wrote:
>
>> Is there a way by which one can change the command line editor
>> in various shells, or is it built in with the shell? The
>> quesion is to find a Unicode capable editor for selected
>> shells (like tcsh, bash, etc.). The Korn shell (ksh) seems to
>> be Unicode capable, but other shells not.
>
> Do you mean `set -o emacs' and `set -o vi' respectively?
>

That would be bash, and both of those offer only 'shadows' of the
real editors that carry those names.

However, bash's fc command brings up the real deal for
commandline editing.

So if any editor can do what he wants, it would work. Just type
fc, it brings up the last command entered in whatever editor
you've specified in your $EDITOR environment variable, in a tmp
file, and runs whatever is left when you are finished editing
and exit the editor.

Not quite what he wants, but it would work.

I have a hunch that zsh might offer the functionality he wants
right on the straight commandline, but am not sure.

AC

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On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 17:11:09 GMT, Hans Aberg wrote:
> Is there a way by which one can change the command line editor in various
> shells,

Environment variables

EDITOR=emacs <--- file editor
VISUAL=vi <---- command line editor


for extra points
man $(basename $SHELL) or
man `basename $SHELL` <-- back tics not apostrophies

In article , Bill Marcum
wrote:

> What makes you say that a given shell is or is not Unicode capable? Are you
> using the latest version of each shell, and are the locale variables set
> properly?

Actually, I discovered some*confusing things:

In the Mac OS 10.4.2 console Terminal (in its UTF-8 mode), when entering
Unicode characters in UTF-8 from the keyboard, they get translated into
octal escape sequences. On the other hand, when I invoke ksh, all Unicode
characters are properly displayed, if the font can manage it.

In the X-Window*that comes with Mac OS 10.4, if I use "uxterm", then the
situation is the reverse: The Unicode UTF-8 are properly displayed in
bash, but not ksh.

Of course, I am interested figuring out getting it correct in both pictures. :-)
(Changing the editor to emacs or vi command line versions does not help at all.)

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