Re: vim editor with TERM

On 2024-05-31, 04-psyche.totter@icloud.com <04-psyche.totter@icloud.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I use the following terminal:
>
> echo $TERM
> xterm-256color
>
> when in my ~/.profile I do:
>
> export EDITOR=nano
>
> everything works well.
>
> However, if I do
>
> export EDITOR=vim
>
> then when I ssh into the machine, up and down arrow in the terminal do not work anymore (it does not give me access to previous commands entered).

It's an extremely annoying misfeature in ksh.

If $EDITOR starts with the letters "vi" then it defaults to vi-style
command line editing. You can use "set -o emacs" to override that, but
then if you sudo/doas to root it will reset to vi-style editing because
of the exported EDITOR variable.

On some machines I got fed up enough with this to symlink
"emacs-notreally" to vim and set EDITOR=emacs-notreally...