I just tried to enter in my ".profile" the line "set -o vi" to activate the history. But it doens't work.

Is there a way, for a normal user to execute "set -o vi" automatically with every logon ?


Thanks
Spartacus

ksh is enabled by default with vi mode.
Set also this in your .profile :

EDITOR=vi
HISTFILE=~/.sh_history
HISTSIZE=128
export EDITOR HISTFILE HISTSIZE

(This should be in the OS + DBs forum...)

If you add what victor_cleto suggests in the /etc/profile of the server, it will be efftective for all users and each should have their own history file in their home directory

Is a new start of ksh enough to see the results ? Seems not to work for me??
I'm on Sun Unix

Spartacus

on Sun the set -o vi does not work... my home machine is not a sun, but when I am logged on and I need it: I start a separate shell with: ksh -o vi

sec... need to check I have one sun, where vi commands work fine... check this: cat .profile
set -o vi
...
This works for me on:
uname -a
SunOS hostname 5.8 Generic_108528-12 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise-10000

I have a:

SunOS SMHG1BN1DB3 5.8 Generic_108528-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-280R

I entered "set -o vi" in ".profile". After that I started ksh new....
and it doesn't work for me :(

(If I type "set -o vi" direct on the prompt the histroy works fine :confused:

Spartacus

What if you do the following:
in .profile:
export ENV=~/.kshrc

and in ~/.kshrc:
set -o vi

Note that .profile is only executed when you log in and .kshrc is executed for every start of a new ksh.


Hope this helps,
Jaap Zwaan

Hi,

I'v the following settings:
In the passwd file: /bin/ksh

In my homedir the file .sh_history exist!
(If I remove it, no new file is created. If I recreate it with > .sh_history, the history is being kept again after relogin.)

In my personal .profile:
set -o vi

And it works. Type <esc> on the prompt and you can "scroll" with k and j.