Re: ksh ^R vs EDITOR=vi

On Mon, Aug 28 2017, Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org> wrote:
> On 2017-08-28, martin@martinbrandenburg.com <martin@martinbrandenburg.com> wrote:
>> What works is to set EDITOR in your profile, then set -o emacs. The other
>> order will result in the shell changing to vi mode.
>
> That's fine until you su :)
>
>> Or we could all set EDITOR to ed, the STANDARD text editor.
>
> An alternative hack is "ln -s vi emacs-not-really" and use
> EDITOR="emacs-not-really" ...

I thought about mentioning your hack in a previous mail in this thread;
but really, this supposedly user-friendly behavior is just a pita.

--
jca, who uses a shell script for $EDITOR...